These materials showcase many aspects, like how artisans garnered the colors they needed in yesteryears and the items that ...

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

This Egyptian blue ingot find connects two crucial periods in art history: the Renaissance revival of its techniques and the grandeur of the Roman Empire.

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 ...

A bottle of Egyptian blue hand mixed by George Washington Carver ... Carver also had a "lifelong passion for art" which influenced his scientific work, the archives said in a news release Monday.