Compositional and Micro-Morphological Characterisation of Red Colourants in Archaeological Textiles from Pharaonic Egypt
When the imagination conjures up an image of an Egyptian mummy, it is normally one of a human body wrapped with undyed linen bandages.However, the reality was much more colourful, as shown by the set of red mummy Convection Range shrouds and textile fragments from Pharaonic Egypt considered in this work.The textiles were subjected to scientific inv