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Tyrian purple is a pigment made from the mucus of several species of Murex snail. Production of Tyrian purple for use as a fabric dye began as early as 1200 BC by the Phoenicians, and was continued by the Greeks and Romans until 1453 AD, with the fall of Constantinople.
Tyrian Purple (aka Royal purple or Imperial purple) is a dye extracted from the murex shellfish which was first produced by the Phoenician city of Tyre in the Bronze Age. Its difficulty of manufacture, striking purple to red colour range, and resistance to fading made clothing dyed using Tyrian purple highly desirable and expensive.
Created from the desiccated glands of sea snails, the colour purple has nevertheless come to define royalty. Kelly Grovier looks at how the hue shook off its unexpected source.
Tyrian purple was paraded by the most privileged in society for millennia – a symbol of strength, sovereignty and money. Ancient authors are particular about the precise hue that was worthy of...
Throughout history, color has played a vital role in our civilizations. Here is the history of Tyrian purple, the world’s most expensive dye.
First created by the ancient Phoenicians in Tyre, Lebanon, Tyrian purple was made from the secretions of thousands of sea snails and was once more valuable than gold.
A group of archeologists just published a paper with proof that Greeks on the island of Aegina Kolonna manufactured a very rare dye called Tyrian purple as early as 1600 BC. Here's how the group figured this out.
During an excavation on the Greek island Aegina, archaeologists discovered 3,600-year-old Tyrian purple dye. Phoenicians allegedly developed the highly prized pigment in the Bronze Age.
Tyrian purple was one of the costliest and most mysterious of the dyes of ancient times. Used first by the Phoenicians, it was taken from the secretions of several species of mollusks, Murex brandaris and Purpura haemostoma and was reserved for use by royalty, priests and nobles.
World History Encyclopedia - Tyrian Purple; Ancient Origins - Tyrian Purple: The Secret Process Behind the World’s Most Expensive Dye; ACS Publications - In Search of Surface-Induced Crystal Structures: The Case of Tyrian Purple; Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing - Tyrian purple: an ancient natural dye for cross-conjugated n-type charge ...