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 ...

"Double dyeing achieved a sophisticated imitation that could easily pass for authentic royal purple ," Dr. Sukenik explains. "Madder and woad were widely available, far cheaper, and far easier to work ...

Making authentic Tyrian purple dye starts with extracting a murex snail gland. After a series of painstaking steps, Tunisian dye maker Mohamed Ghassen Nouira turns as much as 45 kilograms of snails ...

Clothing in antiquity functioned as an immediately legible social code, a woven system of signs in which the appearance of a garment, the nature of its raw materials, the details of its ornamentation, ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract ABSTRACT: We documented positive interactions created by aggregations of black murex snail Hexaplex nigritus that support an epifaunal ...