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Ronald Bailey

FOUND: The first colored eggs appeared long before easter - What They Never Told You

This Easter, we've hidden a dozen colorful, egg-centric stories across Reason.com. Hop around the site to find them—or click here to see them all in one basket.

 

The tradition of coloring eggs to celebrate Easter can be traced to the 13th-century Britain, and perhaps even earlier, to early Christian Europe and Mesopotamia. But these were not the first colored eggs. Researchers have recently determined that they likely appeared about 150 million years ago.

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