A Sherlock Holmes-style investigation has revealed the ancient method for the stunning pigment known as Maya blue — and it's different from a previous method uncovered nearly 20 years ago by the same ...

The mystery of Maya blue has fascinated researchers since the discovery of artifacts still displaying this hue after millennia. A recent study reveals surprising details about this sacred color. Maya ...

New research published in the journal Ancient Mesoamerica has revealed the origin of the elusive Maya Blue pigment. The Maya Blue pigment was found on Late Classic-era pottery discovered within ...

In a recent study published in the journal Ancient Mesoamerica, Dr. Dean Arnold and his colleagues, Joseph Ball, Laure Dussubieux, and Jennifer Tachek, examined 17 samples of Maya Blue from pottery ...

CHICAGO—Anthropologists from Wheaton College (Illinois) and The Field Museum have discovered how the ancient Maya produced an unusual and widely studied blue pigment that was used in offerings, ...

Chicago archaeologists have solved the mystery of how the ancient Maya produced Maya Blue, a vivid and virtually indestructible pigment that was used for painting religious objects and human ...

The ancient Maya used a vivid, remarkably durable blue paint to cover their palace walls, codices, pottery and maybe even the bodies of human sacrifices who were thrown to their deaths down sacred ...

Chicago anthropologists have solved the mystery of how the ancient Maya produced Maya blue, a vivid and virtually indestructible pigment that was used for painting religious objects and human ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There was more than the obvious reason to feel blue for people offered in human sacrifice rituals by the ancient Maya to their rain god -- they were painted blue before being ...