How Scientists Recreated Ancient Egypt’s Long-Lost Pigment, “Egyptian Blue”

How Scientists Recreated Ancient Egypt’s Long-Lost Pigment, “Egyptian Blue”

Photo courtesy of Washington State University. It’s become fashionable, in recent years, to observe that we live in an increasingly beige-and-gray world from which all color is being drained. Whether or not that’s really the case, all of us still enjoy easy access to a range of colors that nobody in the ancient world could have imagined, and not just through our screens. Look around you, and your eye will soon fall upon some object or another wh…