“The Domus Aurea once again moves [us] and restores ... identified Egyptian blue in the Baths of Titus and the walls of Pompeii. Often, archaeologists discover traces of Egyptian blue that ...

The Domus Aurea was a place of extreme opulence ... Traces of the pigment have even been found among the ruins of Pompeii, the Roman city that was smothered (and preserved) by a volcanic ...