We often picture ancient Egyptian temples as bare stone—but they were once filled with color. In this video, we visit a temple where restoration teams have brought ancient pigments back to life, ...

Ancient Egyptian artists as far back as 3100 B.C.E. employed an artificial pigment now called Egyptian blue, using it to paint wood, stone, and cartonnage (a material that resembles papier-mâché), as ...

Archaeologists in Rome have discovered beautiful, ancient paint—but not just any paint. Known as “Egyptian Blue,” it’s among the oldest synthetic pigments in the world, with the newly found ingot ...

Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...