4,000-Year-Old Dye Found on Egyptian Artifact
AUGUST 11, 2009
Associated Press Four thousand years ago Egyptians had mastered the process of making madder, a red dye, according to a researcher who uncovered the earliest known example of the color still used today.Read the full story: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32362118/Refining a technique that allows the study of microscopic bits of pigment, Marco Leona of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York was able to analyze the color of a fragment of leather from an ancient Egyptian quiver.
