Dramatic video from Catania showed water gushing through the streets as floods engulfed the city. Forecasters say eastern Sicily is being hit by a rare Mediterranean hurricane, known as a Medicane.

Evidence of advanced toolmaking. The team's study, now published in Science Advances, examines seven ochre pieces discovered in the sediments found in Blombos Cave, dated to approximately 90,000 ...

The use of ochre dates to the Middle Stone Age and Middle Palaeolithic.The earliest evidence of its use in Africa dates 285 000 years. In Africa, ochre is used for protection from the sun and as a ...

Ochre was often used as a vivid red paint in ancient rock art known as pictographs. Despite its broad use throughout human history and a modern focus on how the artistic symbolism is interpreted ...