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

A dig at a coastal village in Israel has turned up remains of a large facility that once produced Tyrian purple on an ...

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 ...

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 ...