[HN Gopher] Maya Blue: Unlocking the Mysteries of an Ancient Pig...
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Maya Blue: Unlocking the Mysteries of an Ancient Pigment
Author : DanielKehoe
Score : 69 points
Date : 2025-06-14 08:48 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.mexicolore.co.uk)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.mexicolore.co.uk)
| jihadjihad wrote:
| Cool article, and even cooler site IMO. Brings back memories of
| 20 years ago, when many sites looked similar. It probably looks
| radically ugly to the modern eye, but I kind of miss the
| goofiness of pages like this, down to the poem at the bottom (in
| Comic Sans, no less).
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| Chrome probably would have kicked up some sort of fuss about it,
| but I was almost hoping to see _.swf_ as the file extension for
| the wheel GIF at the top. Good times.
| pimlottc wrote:
| The downside is that it's not very mobile friendly. Reader mode
| works okay on Mobile Safari, although it does lose the images.
| maxwell wrote:
| Egyptian blue was recently recreated using ancient methods:
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| https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2025/06/02/researchers-re...
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| They look chemically quite different: clay,
| palygorskite/sepiolite, and indigo for Mayan blue; silica, lime,
| copper, and an alkali for Egyptian blue.
| dclaw wrote:
| Apparently someone has recreated it.
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| https://yucatantoday.com/en/blog/how-is-the-maya-blue-pigmen...
| noduerme wrote:
| By chance I came across this after yesterday flying for the first
| time over the eastern edge of the Yucatan. The turqoise color of
| the water is otherworldly. I love that they draw the comparison,
| as this pigment really does resemble it!
| tinkertrain wrote:
| For anyone interested in pigments/colors, the National Gallery
| recently started a podcast on the subject in YouTube, I enjoyed
| the Prussian Blue history episode:
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK1GSvP6VYs&t=1992s
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