The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the Roman emperor Nero. Archaeologists recently uncovered a ...

More than 5,000 years ago, in ancient Egypt, a mixture of silica, lime, copper, and an alkali was heated, resulting in a bright blue compound known as calcium copper silicate. This striking ...

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.

Evidently, Egyptian blue was another key ingredient in the palace’s grandeur. The artificial pigment was highly sought-after by rulers across the ancient world.

The discovery might illuminate the link between the blue pigment’s ancient Egyptian roots and its rediscovery by Renaissance artists centuries later Eli Wizevich History Correspondent In the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Explore the cultural significance of the color blue in art history at Arushi Arts Gallery's Blue Horizons exhibition.

A bottle of Egyptian blue hand mixed by George Washington Carver (c. 1864-1943) was loaned by the Iowa State University Special Collections and University Archives to the Met. Best known for ...