The publication of “Chroma” represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with ...

In Ancient Greece in 530 BCE, visitors to the grave of a young boy and girl would have gazed toward the sky and seen a brightly painted sphinx perched atop the 13-foot marble stele that marked the ...

JERUSALEM – An Israeli researcher says she has identified a nearly 2,000-year old textile that may contain a mysterious blue dye described in the Bible, one of the few remnants of the ancient color ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. You may have heard about that old, old pigment. It’s pink. It ...

An ancient Roman cup that changes color in different lighting is the inspiration for a new nanoplasmonic biosensor. The tiny sensor changes color when target molecules bind to it, thanks to the ...

With a flick of a switch, the lights on the projector came on accompanied by a sharp intake of breath from the assembled crowd at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. The 3,000-year old Assyrian stone ...

It’s easy enough to marvel at a tapestry of color in your local museum, but University of Colorado Boulder students are getting a first-hand look at human history that only an ultra-close examination ...

It’s hard to imagine a world without the color blue. What would come of the skies and the oceans? And what about people born with blue eyes? A TikTok account called Psychopoly raised the question of ...

Two German archaeologists use science to recreate the lost colors of antiquity. Historians debate just how authentic their version of the past really is. Groundbreaking or garish? Reconstruction of a ...