In this episode we get a little color on our hands. To the Maya priests and kings two thousand years ago, each of the world directions had its own color. Color was used to paint murals, entire pyramids and palaces: most Maya buildings were painted red. Colorants used by the Maya came from a range of sources like achiote, indigo, añil and many more plants; seashell pigments for purple, insect pigments from cochineal and Mineral pigments like palygorskite, cinnabar, hematite.

Release date

Lydbog: 21. oktober 2020