Minerals able to colour in blue (and green in combination with yellow pigments) are limited
in number and geologically. After presenting a short history of the use of cobalt as a …

The pigments used by the ancient Egyptians constitute the most diverse pigment palette of
the ancient world. This review discusses the pigments and binders which were used …

The term archaeomineralogy is relatively new. It was used by Mitchell (1985) for a brief
bibliography, by Rapp (2002, 2009) for books, and by Kostov et al.(2008) and Rapp (2008) …

Research over the last few decades has greatly enhanced our understanding of the
production and distribution of glass across time and space, resulting in an almost …

New research results from glass beads found in Denmark reveal surprising evidence for
contact in the 14th–12th centuries BC between Egypt, Mesopotamia and Denmark …

Prior to the eighteenth century, cobalt was exclusively employed as a colouring agent for
vitreous materials, and its use appears to be concurrent with the earliest large-scale …

The origins of raw glass used to fashion Mycenaean beads were explored using trace
elements analyzed by laser ablation ICP-TOFMS. The use of this minimally destructive …

This chapter [1] examines the origins of the glass industry in ancient Egypt and attempts to
assess, independently of the recent work at Amarna, whether or not it is likely that there …

The ancient Egyptian blue pigment was developed over 5000 years ago and was used
extensively for around four millennia until its use mysteriously declined dramatically during …

Cobalt blue glass has long now been recognised as characterised by a distinct
compositional signature within the typical compositional range of Late Bronze Age glass …