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With the possible exception of Prince, few historical figures have managed to get away with wearing only purple. In Biblical times, the color was reserved for royalty, and researchers in Israel have now uncovered fragments of clothing dyed with an ancient purple pigment, which they believe may have been worn by the likes of King David or King Solomon.  Presenting their discovery in the journal PLOS One, the study authors describe how they came across three samples of purple fabric at an Iron Age copper smelting site, each of which was tinted with a dye made from Mediterranean moll...

Archaeologists found scraps of purple thread from a dig site in the Timna Valley The dry conditions in this mining region let the organic artefacts be preserved 'Royal' or 'argaman' purple clothing items are described in various Biblical texts However, samples of such garments had never been found from the time period The dye was made from a substance from the glands of Mediterranean shellfish

Researchers in southern Israel have found the first evidence of royal purple dye, once considered more valuable than gold, in 3,000-year-old cloth fragments.   Wool fibers dyed with royal purple from around 1,000 BCE found in Timna Valley, Israel. (Dafna Gazit, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority) (CN) — Evidence of fabric dating back to 3,000 years ago that was dyed with a shade of royal purple found in small quantities in the body of mollusks has been discovered in Timna Valley, an ancient copper production district in southern Israel. The dye is said to have been worth more tha...

Follow Jan. 28, 2021 Back in the time of King David you couldn’t wear Prada, but there already was a must-have high fashion item: anybody who was somebody had to wear purple. Analysis of 3,000-year-old textile fragments unearthed in the copper mines of Timna, deep in Israel’s southern desert, has revealed some to have been stained with a precious dye believed to have decorated the clothes of biblical kings and high priests who served in the Temple in Jerusalem. Some of the wool fabrics, found in 2016, at the site were colored with “royal purple,” a team of researchers from Tel Aviv Un...