New clues in the search to rediscover the mysterious Maya Blue formula
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - 10:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The recipe and process for preparing Maya Blue, a highly-resistant pigment used for centuries in Mesoamerica, were lost. We know that the ingredients are a plant dye, indigo, and a type of clay known as palygorskite, but scientists do not know how they were 'cooked' and combined together. Now, a team of chemists has come up with a new hypothesis about how it was prepared.