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Ancient secrets of Maya blue revealed: a second method for creating the iconic pigment discovered

An amazing new find is expanding our understanding of Maya Blue—one of the most enigmatic and enduring pigments of the ancient world...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/05/ancient-secrets-of-maya-blue-revealed/

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Ancient secrets of Maya blue revealed: a second method for creating the iconic pigment discovered

An amazing new find is expanding our understanding of Maya Blue—one of the most enigmatic and enduring pigments of the ancient world. Dean E. Arnold, adjunct curator of anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and professor emeritus at Wheaton College, has found a second ancient method of producing the pigment, gaining new insights into Maya technology, spirituality, and artistry.

Initially identified by modern researchers in 1931 at Chichén Itzá, Maya Blue is an uncommon hybrid pigment made of organic indigo pigment and the inorganic clay mineral palygorskite. Its vivid color is often described as comparable to the Caribbean Sea or the bright blue sky over the Yucatán Peninsula. Unlike traditional indigo, which faded with age and exposure in old times, Maya Blue resists alkalines, acids, and even tropical humidity. Some of the samples remain stuck to stone carvings at Chichén Itzá today—unfaded after more than a thousand years of enduring hurricanes and jungle heat...

In absolute awe of Mayan art and literature as I read The Popol Vuh (the Christenson translation which was translated directly from Quiche Mayan, not Spanish) and I think that this is about to become a major inspiration for art and tattoos in the next few months
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A sketchbook lays open, landscape oriented, on a glass table through which a white wool rug is visible. A hand lays loosely on the left side of the page holding a blue prismacolor pencil. On the page is a Mayan death owl, redrawn from a classic Mayan pot. It has a harpy-like head with a crown of stylized eyeballs and thorns, drifting tendrils ending in interesting dotwork, and connected wings that terminate in a thick feathered tail.

Delighting in #ClevelandMuseumofArt's exquisite Maya blackware, Deer Effigy Vessel. This Early Classic Period masterpiece artfully blends themes of fertility, sacrifice, and cosmic disharmony. Curious: what symbology do you perceive upon first glance?
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Wanted to share how 'Vibrant Transcendence' looks on a canvas

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“We wanted to...convey the point that Maya are living people, not something archaeological or from the past,” Chinchilla Mazariegos said. “These are living communities that still preserve aspects of the ancient religious beliefs depicted in the ancient objects presented in the exhibition.”

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https://news.yale.edu/2022/11/22/lives-gods-met-exhibition-maya-art-guided-yale-scholarship