The discovery might illuminate the link between the blue pigment's ancient Egyptian roots and its rediscovery by Renaissance ...

Stunning in their scale, colour and detail, frescoes can give us a fascinating glimpse of ancient civilisations. Every now and then, a new fresco is discovered which sheds further light onto how ...

They were painted on limestone with wet natural pigments. Fresco painting was popular in Ancient Greece and Rome and then adopted by Byzantine and Kyivan Rus painters. However, the most ...