Recent excavations at Domus Aurea, the former imperial residence of Roman emperor Nero, have yielded remnants of a rare blue pigment that hint at the palace’s former glory. When Nero’s imperial palace ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers Travis Olds and Lisa Haney from the Carnegie Museum examine an ancient sarcophagus that was painted with Egyptian blue pigment. Credit: Washington State University Researchers Travis Olds ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...