5,000-Year-Old Blue Pigment Reveals Evidence of Ancient Egyptian Nanotechnology—Now It’s Finding New Life in Biomedical Imaging

Thousands of years ago, a striking blue pigment began appearing in the art that adorned the walls of ancient Egyptian tombs, and eventually on the crown of the famous bust of Nefertiti, wife of the 18th dynasty pharaoh Akhenaten and half-sister to one of Ancient Egypt’s most famous kings:...