Flipboard Science DeskDiscovery of a Bronze Age dye workshop reveals secrets of history’s most precious pigment.
From CNN: "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, produced from Mediterranean sea snails, for its resistance to the inevitable fading of plant-based dyes used at the time."
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