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A 2,900-Year-Old Factory That Produced Tyrian Purple — The Most Prized Dye Of The Ancient World — Has Been Found In Israel
Across the ancient Mediterranean, few luxury commodities were as prized, rare, and expensive as Tyrian purple, a dye used in ...
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Archaeologists Unearth Rare Traces of the First Ancient Factory Dedicated to Purple Dye Production
Located at Tel Shiqmona in coastal Israel, the facility turned sea snails into purple dye at an industrial scale ...