TUNIS, Feb 8 (Reuters) - A Tunisian history enthusiast is making dye from sea snail shells inspired by a school project decades ago on ancient Carthage and the purple colouring that brought ...

Lydia Berger / PLOS ONE On an island in Greece, researchers have discovered a 3,600-year-old workshop that once turned out a rare purple dye coveted by royalty—and made from snail glands.

In the snaps, Perry posed in two separate one-piece swimsuits: a red patterned scoop neck bathing suit paired with a matching hat, and a strapless purple tye dye option worn with chunky silver ...

Yet at the archaeological site of Tel Shiqmona, the study authors came across the remains of numerous dye-stained vats, each of which held up to 350 liters of the purple fluid.

One biblical mention of purple dye occurs in Acts 16:14, which describes a female merchant. Archaeologists were able to piece together vat fragments from the factory site. (Moshe Caine / PLOS) ...

The color is known as Tyrian purple and was most often used on woolen textiles. On the archaeological location cited in this study, there were dye-stained vats that were large enough to hold as ...