A bright-red pigment housed inside a small stone vial could be one of the oldest known examples of lipstick in the world. Archaeologists recovered the Bronze Age cosmetic in 2001 in Jiroft ...

An ancient container holding red pigment and shaped very similarly to the tubes of lipstick used today has ... inside likely came from an early Bronze Age culture known as Jiroft, which is ...

Bronze Age footprints in volcanic debris. © Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Provinces of Salerno and Avellino via Facebook Imagine ...

strongly linked to the water and the importance it held for Bronze Age communities." Local archaeology enthusiast George Bird had suggested "for some time" the stone might be part of a larger ...