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Blue Pigment in 1,000-Year-Old Teeth Links Women to the Production of Medieval Manuscripts

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Traces of a rare and expensive blue pigment, called ultramarine, have been detected in the teeth of a woman who died in Germany nearly 1,000 years ago. The discovery suggests women played a more prominent role in the production of manuscripts during the medieval period, and that ultramarine was more available in…

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