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🇸🇿 Eswatini · Archaeological wonder
Middle Stone Age to Iron Age (43,000 BCE–400 CE) · MSA/MSA modern humans
Ngwenya (Lion Cavern) is the world's oldest mine, hematite and specularite 43,000 BCE Middle Stone Age open-cast pit 25 m deep with radiocarbon mining tools and 43 ka charcoal, extracting red ochre…