Blue” has been one of the last colors to receive a name in nearly every culture, perhaps because of its rare occurrence in ...

Archaeologists excavating the remains of Rome's "Golden House," the opulent palace that Emperor Nero built for himself right across the street from the Colosseum, recently uncovered a rare chunk of ...

From ocean to sky, blue is seemingly everywhere - but it's one of the most difficult colours for nature to produce using pigments. Animals usually appear blue to the human eye because of microscopic ...

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

Most remarkable, though, was the discovery of a large ingot of Egyptian blue pigment weighing 2.4 kilograms (5.2 pounds). The Domus Aurea was a place of extreme opulence – which is exactly what ...

Green is the quintessential colour of nature - of parks, gardens and forests ... Many of the birds, reptiles and fish we see as green actually use a combination of yellow and blue pigments and ...

Archaeologists excavating near the Colosseum found a rare chunk of Egyptian blue pigment dating back about 2,000 years. Photo from Simona Murrone and the Colosseum Archaeological Park Across the ...

Blue is not a pigment but an outcome of light passing ... This is quite interesting and shows that nothing in nature is without its unique twist in its structure. 2. Strong Family Bonds And ...