What Color is Your Mythology?

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I’ve seen this kicking around elsewhere, but here’s AsapSCIENCE explaining why Ancient Greeks “couldn’t see blue.” Wine-dark sea, indeed.

And, before you get in too deep, here’s Dr. David Miano digging up receipts and showing how once stuff starts flying around the internet, it picks up quite a bit of inertia—

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Here’s Keven Lieber, maybe, at Vsauce2 summing up a history of the color blue, while we’re at it:

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And now that you’re an expert on the history of blue, here’s a bit about the first “new blue” in quite some time, YInMn Blue:

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Here’s some science about why blue is so rare in nature:

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And here’s Tom Scott talking to the curator of the Forbes Pigment Collection at the Harvard Art Museums:

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Ok, ok, one more—here’s some specific information about the blue pigment the Egyptians were making around 2600 BCE:

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There’s a ton more, of course, but if you’re still interested, I’ll let you find your own way through the YouTubes to them. (Your feed will probably be jammed with all kinds of historical- and pigment-based videos for a while, anyway, if you went through all of these!) 🎨