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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 artisans to paint the walls of the emperor Nero’s stately marble home with ...
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Archaeologists Uncover Unusually Large Chunk of Rare ‘Egyptian Blue’ in Nero’s Palace
“The Domus Aurea once again moves [us] and restores the brilliance ... Scientists previously thought that the recipe for Egyptian blue was lost after the fall of the Roman Empire and only truly ...
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Sculpture showing typical Roman houses
Despite these differences, almost all citizens carefully observed the same rituals at dinner time – the rituals that made them Roman ... lived in a domus. This was a house built around an ...
Archaeology breakthrough as 'Egyptian blue' ingot found in historic site
Archaeologists working at Emperor Nero’s grand palace in Rome, known as Domus Aurea, uncovered a rare and rather big Egyptian ...
Bright blue chunk found in Rome turns out to be rare 2,000-year-old material. See it
The colorful material weighed over 5 pounds and was likely made to decorate an emperor’s palace, Italian officials said.
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Bright blue chunk found in Rome turns out to be rare 2,000-year-old material. See it
Archaeologists sifted through the ruins of the Domus Aurea, also known as the ... 5,000 years to ancient Egypt and was popular in the Roman Empire. The block of blue pigment measured about 6 ...