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United States Office of Strategic Services
Yugoslavia
"Since the Middle Ages, orpiment has been mined in Hungary, Romania, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, and the former Yugoslavia for use…
National Geographic Society (U.S.) Cartographic Division
Mediterranean, Sepia Pigment
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…
Mario Ruspoli
Lascaux Cave Drawings
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…