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    Researchers Discover Ancient 'Hashtag'

    The world's oldest drawing was made 73,000 years ago in a South African Cave on a rock with an ocher "crayon."
    by Christopher Joyce Sep 12, 2018 1 minute
    Blombos Cave drawing with ocher pencil on silcrete stone.


    Scientists working in South Africa say they've found the earliest known drawing. It was dug up in a cave where early humans apparently lived for thousands of years and left behind numerous artifacts.

    The drawing isn't what you'd call elaborate; it's

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