Few plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue lotus, a stunning water lily that stars in some of ...

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The earliest known synthetic pigment, Egyptian blue is found in some of the paint that still colors ancient statues, coffins, and tomb walls. Modern scientists were intrigued by this long-lasting ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a chunk of Egyptian blue ingot, an example of the opulence ... insights into ancient and more modern Italian art. Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ...

Archaeologists spent the past two years excavating the ruins of a 3,000-year-old mining camp at Sukari Mountain, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a Feb. 25 Facebook post. The ...