Researchers from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge found that the Ancient Egyptians used a white pigment to amend their papyrus paintings. Ms Strudwick says: 'It’s as if someone saw the original way the jackal was painted and said: “It’s too fat; make it thinner". Using a technique called transmitted light infrared photography, the researchers were able to peer through the upper layers of white pigment to see the painting below. That suggests that the white pigment wasn't an original part of the illustration, but rather something added later to tidy up the scribe's error. Ms Strudwick adds: ''Our analyses also show that the white paint on Ramose’s robe is only made of huntite.

Source: Daily Mail March 09, 2026 14:56 UTC