It was ubiquitous in the ancient world. Then, we just... forgot how to make it.

Washington State University researchers recreate lost Egyptian blue pigment using ancient methods and modern scientific ...

Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago.

For being the world’s oldest known synthetic pigment, the original recipes for Egyptian blue remain a mystery. The ...

Boakai's Plane Suffers Landing Scare At Liberian AirportThe Liberian airport authorities briefly cancelled all inbound flights after a private jet ferrying President Joseph Boakai experienced a ...

Radamès is chosen to lead Egypt’s army against Ethiopia, unaware that Aida’s father, King Amonasro, is leading the opposing ...

The oldest representation of the night sky and our Milky Way galaxy was found in an Egyptian sarcophagus, revealing ancient ...

Cape Town Opera delivers a superb production of one of opera’s true classics, Aida. This production reimagines the setting in an African futurist time and landscape.

Set in 3025, Cape Town Opera’s Aida reinvents itself for a new generation but the voices and the music remain timeless ...

The recovered collection includes stone and wooden coffin lids, funerary masks made of pottery and gilded wood, a large alabaster vessel, and a portrait of a woman from the city of Fayum, reflecting ...

These repatriated artifacts, which date back to various eras of ancient Egyptian civilization ... We operate from Cape Town, Dakar, Abuja, Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington DC.