A 3,000-Year-Old Painter’s Palette from Ancient Egypt, with Traces of the Original Colors Still In It

It’s a good bet that your first box of crayons or watercolors was a simple affair of six or so colors... just like the palette belonging to Amenemopet, vizier to Pharaoh Amenhotep III (c.1391 - c.1354 BC), a pleasure-loving patron of the arts whose rule coincided with a period of great prosperity.