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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have found a way to reproduce the world's oldest synthetic pigment visible on this ancient wooden falcon artifact. For ...

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It's no secret that German political hypocrisy runs deep, and the art world is no exception. Berlin-based platform and journal OnCurating published a special edition last fall that bears this pattern ...

Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago. A team of Washington State University-led researchers has ...

The Carnegie Musuem of Natural History team is at the Edward O’Neil Research Center taking samples of blue pigment from a small sculpture in their care. (photo courtesy Matt Unger/Carnegie Museum of ...

A team of researchers from the University of Barcelona (UB) has discovered remains of Egyptian blue in a Romanesque altarpiece in the church of Sant Pere de Terrassa (Barcelona). This blue pigment was ...

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 ...