ULTRAMARINE

The finest blue know to the ancients, was obtained from the precious stone lapis lazuli.

Lapis lazuli has been mined for counties from a location still in use today in the mountain valley of Kokvha, Afghanistan. First mined 6.000 years algo, the rock was transported to Egypt and late to Europe where it was used in jewelry and paint pigment Europeans called the expensive powered pigment ultramarine, which literally means over the sea.
Since the 19 century, ultramarine has been manualfactured artificially.

Ultramarine blue is historical pigment having been found in Egyptian tomb paintings. Syynthetic ultramarine was produced at the beginning of the nineteenth Century.