[muaytimbo]

Not sure how you reached that conclusion:

"English Heritage, which manages the UNESCO World Heritage Site, said it was “extremely upsetting” and said curators were investigating the damage."

[throwup238]

> According to Just Stop Oil’s website, the pigment was made of an “orange cornflour” that would wash away in the rain.

I assume the biggest impact here is that archaeologists will have to exclude orange corn flour as background noise from any future analyses

[cjensen]

The assumption that it will wash away in the rain rather than find its way into cracks and pits in the rock is an awfully big bet to make vs permanent damage to history.

[crtasm]

If this could "damage history" then we're way overdue putting the stones into a safe indoor storage facility.

[maronato]

It survived 4500 years, it’ll survive a bit of cornflour

[Turing_Machine]

Cool. So you'd be fine with me coming over and spray painting something of my choice on your house, assuming I assured you (with absolutely no supporting evidence) that it would go away over some unspecified period of time?

I do not think so.

Anyone who's been around small children knows that some food dyes do NOT disappear when washed, even with detergent.