Pieces of pottery stained with blue and purple dye made from murex sea snails are among the forgotten artifacts that sat in storage for about 50 years after they were excavated. They constitute ...

Roman Empire's 'Most Expensive and Sought After Color' Discovered, Dye Worth More Than Weight in Gold Archaeologists have ...

So we all know the color purple has always been associated with royalty because the dye used to make it was extremely limited beca ...

Creating the historic hue required an immense number of sea snails found along ... Once collected, the snails had to be kept ...

This sea snail isn't purple itself, but if disturbed it secretes a substance that gradually turns purple. As the name 'purple dye' suggests, the murex's secretion has been used as a fabric dye for ...

A rare dye made from snails for the robes of the Roman elite almost 2,000 years ago has been unearthed at a cricket club. The chunk of Tyrian purple, roughly the size of a ping pong ball ...