Historians recently unveiled their findings about an ancient purple dye factory located in modern-day Israel — revealing a glimpse into life during biblical times. In an article recently ...

Across the ancient Mediterranean, few luxury commodities were as prized, rare, and expensive as Tyrian purple, a dye used in the clothing and furnishings of wealthy elites. Made from the ...

5/3: CBS Morning News 20:13. Archaeologists working in England found a "mysterious lump" of a purple substance that in Roman times would have been worth more than gold, researchers said in a news ...

Archaeologists have revealed a major production site for one of history’s most luxurious, and smelliest, colorants. By Franz Lidz The most prized pigment of antiquity was processed not from a ...

This Facility Once Produced the Ancient World’s Rarest Dye at a Grand Scale Archaeologists in Israel have turned up the remains of a massive operation that once produced Tyrian purple. Stone ...

“In the past, the assumption was that the first large-scale production facilities of purple dye were only established in Roman times, around the first century C.E.,” co-author Ayelet Gilboa ...

For the first time, archaeologists discovered an industrial purple-dye factory that remained in business for 500 years between 1100 and 600 BCE in Israel, highlighting a famous and mysterious ...

For millennia, Tyrian purple was the most valuable colour on the planet. Then the recipe to make it was lost. By piecing together ancient clues, could one man bring it back?

The site of Aegina Kolonna in 2012. The island in Greece was part of a major trade network during the Late Bronze Age. Paris Lodron University, Department of Classics, Excavation Aegina Kolonna ...

A rare, 3,600-year-old purple dye workshop uncovered on a Greek island sheds light on the mysteries surrounding the once revered hue, according to archaeologists.