The discovery might illuminate the link between the blue pigment's ancient Egyptian roots and its rediscovery by Renaissance ...

Excavations at Domus Aurea, the former imperial residence of Roman emperor Nero, have yielded remnants of the rare Egyptian ...

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Among his many projects, he sought to revive Nero’s plan to dig a canal in Corinth, making him the most prolific benefactor of construction projects in Roman Greece after the emperors themselves.

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Video screenshot/YouTube, Updrones The forgotten statue of Nero at the Isthmus of Corinth is a relic of the time the Roman emperor granted freedom to a part of ancient Greece. It is also a testament ...

Deep beneath Rome’s Domus Aurea, archaeologists have unearthed a rare ingot of Egyptian blue — the world’s first synthetic pigment.

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In Rome, archaeologists at the Domus Aurea, Emperor Nero's grand palace, have made a striking discovery ... The finding of this Egyptian blue ingot bridges two significant periods in art history: the ...