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The Mediterranean Seafloor
National Geographic Society (U.S.) Cartographic Division
The cuttlefish is known to inhabit the shallows of the Mediterranean Sea where it has long been a popular source for extracting the grey-brown pigment…
The Cave of Lascaux: The Final Photographs 2
Mario Ruspoli
These paintings were made tens of thousands of years ago on the walls of caves in what is now France. The paintings in the Cave of Lascaux rely…
Swaziland: Minerals by Directorate of Overseas Surveys
Directorate of Overseas Surveys - Survey Production Centre
Like red ochre, yellow ochre is an earth pigment, mined worldwide. Yellow ochre was mined from Swaziland's Bomvu Ridge as long as forth thousand years…
Soot Ink Pigment
Soot Ink
Rother, Grace
Socialist Czechoslovakia
Government Committee for Tourism in Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia, now known as the two separate countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, has a long tradition of mining. One of these minerals is…
Sepia Pigment
Sepia
Rother, Grace
S. Rom. Imperii circuli et electoratus Bavariae tabula choragraphica
Georg Philipp Finckh
The map can be found here.
Robin Hood Pigment
Grace Rother
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