Artful Science: Peering into Ancient Pigments
Monday, August 10, 2009 - 18:35
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The chemistry skills and know-how needed to extract pigment from a plant or insect and create a solid dye date back some 4,000 years to ancient Egypt, new research concludes. Previous analysis had only confirmed such techniques to about 1200 B.C. [More]