“Color the Temple,” a tool to digitally restore color on the Temple of Dendur with projected light (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) We recognize the Temple of Dendur today as a ...

As advancements in forensic technology reveal, antiquity’s surviving artifacts weren’t always without pigment. In a new installation titled “Color the Temple” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a well ...

Egyptian and German experts have successfully restored the lost colors and glimmering metals that once enlivened ancient Egypt’s second largest, and perhaps best preserved, temple. Since 2021, Egypt’s ...

It may seem strange, a technology reporter doing a piece on the 2,000-year-old Egyptian Temple of Dendur. Strange, until you see this section. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s MediaLab, which explores ...

Visitors who enter the temple's impressively preserved chambers may not know that its carvings and hieroglyphs were once colorfully painted. Experimental lighting display Color the Temple, Scene 1 at ...

Are you sitting down? This may be hard to believe, but many of the beautiful stone antiquities we’ve come to love for their pure form were actually once embellished with flashy colors. That’s ...