A pigment made from calcium copper tetrasilicate, the first artificial pigment, a blue, used by Egyptians for over 3 millennia, before dying out during the Roman Empire; one of the few alternates to lapis lazuli during ancient times.
Origin
Egyptian + blue From being a blue invented by Ancient Egyptians
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