Scientists Finally Figured Out Why Ancient Egyptian Art Still Looks So Vibrant
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Scientists Finally Figured Out Why Ancient Egyptian Art Still Looks So Vibrant
If you’ve ever seen ancient Egyptian art or pottery that somehow, all these thousands of years later, still looks vibrant, like it was painted recently, a research team publishing its findings in Science Advances might have figured out why. Using a technique called proteomics that can identify proteins left behind in ancient materials, the researchers […] The post Scientists Finally Figured Out Why Ancient Egyptian Art Still Looks So Vibrant app…
The pigments of ancient Egypt are well known, much less the recipes that kept them. The analysis of 28 samples reveals mixtures of animal glues, sesame and moringa, a plant associated with the god of artisans.
For decades, ancient art experts have relied on techniques such as infrared spectroscopy or chromatography to find out what the colors and adhesives used by Egyptians were made of. But these tools only offer partial clues: they indicate that there is a protein, but they don’t say which animal or plant it comes from, or if [...]
A new study showed that Egyptian craftsmen relied on a combination of animal and plant adhesives, with deliberate choices that carried deep religious and symbolic meaning. A team of restoration experts, historians, and scientists discovered the secret that Egyptian antiquities would remain bright for more than 3,000 years first appeared in Sawalev.
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