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1.  Overview     2. History of use     3. Making the pigment     4. Technical details

History of Egyptian blue:               A painted swatch of Egyptian blue: One of the oldest synthetic pigments   When was Egyptian blue used?             Discovery:      Used until:   3100 B.C.   used very rarely after the Roman period