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 to the classical world....
So expensive was the colour even in ancient times that the Romans restricted its use to the elite, whose purple fringed robes became the mark of the Mediterranean's most powerful dynasty....
For the ancient Phoenicians, from modern-day Lebanon, the trade in Tyrian purple he
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2022-02-08 00:00:00.0