Color in history: color history

What color are black boxes of aircraft?
Why does the river turn green in Chicago once a year?
Who made orange carrots?
Why pink is the best color for boys?
Why do the artist need mummies?
Which paint is more expensive than gold?
And because of what war began?
This book contains amazing and completely true stories about how different colors and paints inspired the great, became the causes of wars, dictated fashion, led to diseases or became a means of enrichment. To trace the history of various dyes from antiquity to the present day, the reader will go on a fascinating journey, see the blue baboons in the tomb of Tutankhamun, the Gold of Incas, the red ink of the Chinese emperor, the drawings of primitive people in the Lasco cave, the “flea” dresses of Maria Antoinette, the blue combat coloring Celtic warriors and deadly hazardous green walls in Napoleon"s room.
Who will like it:
Everyone who wants to look at the usual things in a new way and discover unexpected pages of world history.
For children 8-12 years old