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Ancient Chinese Artists May Have Used Human Blood to Make Their Paintings Last 2,000 Years
Researchers found mortar samples with up to 99% human blood, suggesting the ancient painters used it to bind pigment and preserve the murals.
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Were these ancient rock images painted with human blood?
Macabre ingredient may have helped murals on Chinese cliffs survive nearly 2000 years of weathering. Naked men strutting. A towering figure wearing a feather headpiece. Drums and bells played in ancient rituals. These are among the thousands of nearly 2000-year-old images found in vivid red murals along the karst limestone cliffs of China's Zuojiang River Valley. For decades, researchers have marveled at how this open-air art gallery — known as …
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- 34% of the sources lean Left, 33% of the sources are Center, 33% of the sources lean Right
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