The Tyrian purple pigment. Wardell Armstrong These ingredients allowed researchers to identify the substance as "Tyrian Purple," the color that the Roman Empire associated with its imperial court.

Tyrian purple has its roots in the 15th century B.C.E., when the Mediterranean cities of Sidon and Tyre developed a process to produce the puce shade.

Archaeologists in Carlisle uncovered “mysterious lump,” identified as rare Tyrian purple pigment, at 1,700-year-old bathhouse, photo shows.

Tyrian purple is thought to have first been manufactured in the 2nd millennium B.C. by the Phoenicians—an ancient civilization of the Mediterranean region that originated in the coastal Levant ...

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, ...

CreatureCast - Tyrian Purple from Casey Dunn on Vimeo. Before the development of synthetic dyes, pigments were created using organic materials. Nina Ruelle tells the story of Tyrian Purple, a dye ...

The production of Tyrian purple involved capturing the secretions of sea snails, which discharge a single drop of a fluid from their hypobranchial glands as part of their predatory behavior.

But all hail Tyrian purple! In 2001, through trial and error, the technique for making it resurfaced. Well before then, synthetic dyes, including purple, were available. PURPLE, IN SONG.

Archaeologists in Carlisle uncovered “mysterious lump,” identified as rare Tyrian purple pigment, at 1,700-year-old bathhouse, photo shows.

But all hail Tyrian purple! In 2001, through trial and error, the technique for making it resurfaced. Well before then, synthetic dyes, including purple, were available. PURPLE, IN SONG.