Making the era’s most prized purple dye — known as Tyrian purple — was a painstaking process, and researchers have just discovered one of the main manufacturing hubs where such work once ...

Tyrian purple was a highly prized pigment developed in the Bronze Age, and it retained its status into the late medieval period. The ancient Greeks and then the Romans revered the royal color ...

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? At first, they just ...

These ingredients allowed researchers to identify the substance as "Tyrian Purple," the color that the Roman Empire associated with its imperial court. The pigment is made from thousands of ...

When exposed to sunlight the mucus shifts in color from green to blue, and finally to dark purple. It was called Tyrian purple after the city of Tyre. For the best part of 1,000 years, the harvest ...

How prized was Tyrian purple in ancient times? Highly. In fact, so popular and sought-after was the dye that traces of its production—clumps of pigments, remains of workshops—have surfaced in ...

Archaeologists in the United Kingdom uncovered a “mysterious lump,” identified as rare Tyrian purple pigment, at a 1,700-year-old Roman bathhouse. Photo from Wardell Armstrong Archaeologists ...