UK Archaeologists Have Found One of the World’s Oldest 'Crayons'
A prehistoric clump of pigment found near an ancient lake in England may be one of the cosmos ’s honest-to-god crayons , Colossalreports . The small object made of red ochre was hear during an archaeological excavation nearLake Flixton , a prehistoric lake that has since become a peat wetland but was once reside by Mesolithic Orion - gatherers . Though it ’s hard to date the wax crayon itself , it was find in a bed of earth dating back to the 7th millennium BCE , according to arecent studyby University of York archeologist ....