Across the ancient Mediterranean, few luxury commodities were as prized, rare, and expensive as Tyrian purple, a dye used in ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a 2,900-year-old factory that produced Tyrian purple dye — a luxurious commodity for ...

Located at Tel Shiqmona in coastal Israel, the facility turned sea snails into purple dye at an industrial scale ...

Israel’s northern coast has uncovered evidence of the ancient production of purple dye for industrial purposes, according to ...

Tel Shiqmona, on the Haifa coast, was one of the important centers for the manufacture of the rare and prestigious purple pigment.The post How Israel produced luxury dye 3,000 years ...