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A Five-Pound Hunk of the World's Oldest Known Synthesized Pigment Was Found in Nero's Palace
In the ruins of Rome’s opulent Domus Aurea palace, archaeologists have uncovered an array of ancient pigments used by ...
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Archaeologists Uncover Unusually Large Chunk of Rare ‘Egyptian Blue’ in Nero’s Palace
Presumably from within the tubs, they recovered an amphora containing yellow ocher, tiny jars with red pigments such as ...
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Exceptional Discovery in Nero’s Domus Aurea in Rome: Pigments and a Massive Ingot of Egyptian Blue
Detail of the excavation of the amphora with yellow ochre. Credit: Parco archeologico del Colosseo Egyptian blue, also known ...