TUNIS (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 fabulous wealth ...

Poking his head out of the tiled garden outhouse in a Tunis suburb, Ghassen Nouira tells Middle East Eye, with a grin, how his work producing purple dye powder using millennia-old methods nearly cost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Making authentic Tyrian purple dye starts with extracting a murex snail gland. After a series of painstaking steps, Tunisian dye ...

Three scraps of fabric found in Israeli caves had been dyed indigo, purple and crimson — the hues of the rich and regal during the Roman era — using sea snail ink some 2,000 years ago, a new analysis ...

Tracing purple from its foul-smelling workshops in Tyre to imperial laws that restricted its use, this detailed account shows how Roman emperors monopolized the dye, executed rivals for wearing it, ...

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered three textile scraps containing purple dye dating to around 1000 BC, when King David is said to have ruled the area in Israel’s southern tip, including Timna, ...