While ancient Egyptian ... of indigo across the paintings potentially indicates that the deep-blue pigment was mass produced. Some conservators even noticed small fibers embedded in the dye ...

Egyptian Blue, despite its rarity, was once a fairly affordable dye. Around 70 C.E., it sold for roughly the same price per pound as the more common red ochre (and half the price of indigo), but ...

One of the oldest and best-preserved mummies to ever be found was recently discovered in Saqqara, Egypt. His name was Hekashepes. Dr. Zahi Hawass, lead archaeologist and former antiquities ...

The earliest finding was believed to be 6,200 years ago, an indigo-dyed textile excavated from a ceremonial mound in Peru. The colorfast dye survives in the linen that wraps Egyptian mummies ...

The mummies were found in the ancient cemetary of Qewaisna about 40 miles north of Cairo, dating between 300BC and 640AD. The Egyptian archaeological mission of the Supreme Council for Archaeology ...

Talking about mummies, in a very recent discovery, archaeologists in Egypt have found that many ancient mummies have solid-gold tongues in their mouths. Experts investigating tombs at the site fou ...

It includes child mummies from various parts of Egypt dating as early as the Old Kingdom (third millennium B.C.) to the Roman Period (fourth century A.D.). Indigo Reeve, a bioarchaeologist at the ...

CAIRO, EGYPT—According to an Ahram Online report, poorly preserved mummies equipped with golden tongues have been discovered in the Quweisna necropolis, which is located in northern Egypt’s ...

Her natural hair had been dyed with henna and juniper oil. A number of ancient mummies, in Egypt and the Americas, have been found with facial expressions resembling a scream - eerily similar to ...