Iron Age purple dye factory unearthed on Israel’s Carmel coast
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Iron Age purple dye factory unearthed on Israel’s Carmel coast
Archaeologists have found a large Iron Age industrial complex on Israel’s Carmel Coast that produced the luxurious purple dye once exclusively reserved for royalty and high priests. The discovery, made at Tel Shiqmona near modern Haifa, is of an ancient production site operating on a commercial scale between 1100 and 600 BCE. This period is consistent with the biblical Kingdom of Israel and the era of the First Temple in Jerusalem. Stone tools w…
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