New research has shown that a pigment called Egyptian blue, formulated some 5,250 years ago, can be used as dusting powder to detect fingerprints on complicated surfaces. The earliest known ...

Few plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue lotus, a stunning water lily that stars in some of archaeology’s most significant discoveries. Researchers found its petals covering ...

A historic painting on a 3,000-year-old Egyptian tomb has gone viral for ... The painting features a woman with yellow-coloured skin, a blue crown and a green outfit – and once you see the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 3,000-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus featuring ... wearing a green dress and a tall blue crown, which many have noted closely resembles Marge Simpson's iconic ...

As he did more research, he learned of the Egyptian blue lotus's prominence through classes and ancient artifacts kept at Berkeley's own Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. As he learned to ...