Researchers from the University of Barcelona have identified the pigment known as Egyptian blue on a decorated altar piece in a twelfth-century church. The pigment was used by the ancient Egyptians and the Romans, but was no longer made after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 A.D. Because the church was built […]

The granite body to a statue of a Ptolemaic-era king has been unearthed at the temple of Taposiris Magna, near Alexandria, Egypt. Enjoy these pictures of Egyptian crocodile mummies at National Geographic Daily News. The mummies were given computed tomography scans at the Stanford School of Medicine in California.   Pottery found beneath Aviles Street in […]