A rare Egyptian blue ingot weighing 2.4 kilograms and measuring 15 centimeters in height was discovered by archaeologists at the Domus Aurea, Emperor Nero's grand palace built in 65 CE. Egyptian blue, ...

The pigment “Egyptian Blue” was invented about 5,000 years ago. It’s the world’s oldest known synthetic pigment. But it was lost to time, until recently. Scientists at Washington State University not ...

Archaeologists in Rome have discovered beautiful, ancient paint—but not just any paint. Known as “Egyptian Blue,” it’s among the oldest synthetic pigments in the world, with the newly found ingot ...

A color pigment developed by the ancient Egyptians thousands of years ago may have an extremely beneficial application today, research has found. In a paper published by The Journal of Applied Physics ...

A team of scientists in Germany has found a new, biomedical, use for a pigment invented by the Ancient Egyptians by turning it into nano-sized particles. Egyptian Blue is one of the oldest manmade ...

Liam McEvoy, a fourth-year UC Berkeley student majoring in anthropology and minoring in Egyptology, has spent much of his time on campus studying the cultural significance of the Egyptian blue lotus ...

Thousands of years ago, the ancient Egyptians created a blue pigment which they used in their depictions of gods and royalty. Derived from calcium copper silicate, the substance is now known as ...

Classical Greek marble sculptures today appear crisp and white. But they weren’t always that way, according to a new study, which found the famous 2,500-year-old Parthenon sculptures were colorful, ...

Research led by anthropology and Egyptology student Liam McEvoy at the University of California, Berkeley, has proposed a new hypothesis about the use of the blue lotus in ancient Egypt. McEvoy's ...

A team of scientists has discovered that the Parthenon Marbles were painted in multiple colors, patterns, and designs. Intriguingly, the sculptures were even painted on their backside, where the ...

Egyptian blue is known as the world’s oldest artificial pigment, first used more than 4,500 years ago, found on wall paintings at Luxor and sculptures recovered from the Parthenon. The hue comes from ...