This striking, vibrant color became the world’s first synthetic pigment, now known as Egyptian Blue. The Egyptians utilized this pigment extensively, applying it to a variety of materials such as ...

vibrant color became the world’s first synthetic pigment, now known as Egyptian Blue. The Egyptians utilized this pigment extensively, applying it to a variety of materials such as stone ...

Dome of the octagonal room, Emperor Nero’s Domus Aurea in Rome, Italy. Credit: Mariordo / CC BY-SA 4.0 Archaeologists working at the Domus Aurea, Emperor Nero’s grand palace in ancient Rome, have ...

Like many people, Amy Morin, a psychotherapist and author of “13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do,” loves to be surrounded by the color blue. So much so, in fact, that she lives on a ...

Unlike yellow and red ocher, Egyptian blue is a synthetic color achieved by heating a mixture of limestone, chemical compounds, and copper-containing minerals. Its earliest production and use ...

It is believed that Egyptian blue was made by working a mixture of limestone, silica, and minerals containing copper and sodium carbonate, before firing it at extremely high temperatures.

Archaeologists working at Emperor Nero’s grand palace in Rome, known as Domus Aurea, uncovered a rare and rather big Egyptian blue ingot. Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was a Roman ...

63.5 x 50.5 cm. (25 x 19.9 in.) ...