4,000-year-old dye found on Egyptian artifact

Monday, August 10, 2009 - 16:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Four thousand years ago Egyptians had mastered the process of making madder, a red dye, according to a researcher who uncovered the earliest known example of the color still used today.

Read the whole article on MSNBC: Science

More from MSNBC: Science

Learn more about

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net