Did you know that a new car can be completely painted in four hours? Well, that's nowadays. This documentary takes us back 30,000 years ago to cave paintings, then the early Mesopotamians used bitumen and other pigments before the Egyptians covered their walls with stories and images. They were also first to use clay pots and various soft desert stones that they could grind down and mix with water for a beautiful array of colours to paint onto dry plaster. It's not long before people can paint onto wet plaster - frescoes used beeswax (fresh from use on their war galleys!). 1,000 years later, th...