Making authentic Tyrian purple dye starts with extracting a murex snail gland. After a series of painstaking steps, Tunisian dye maker Mohamed Ghassen Nouira turns as much as 45 kilograms of snails ...

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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 ...

For millennia, Tyrian purple was the most valuable colour on the planet. Then the recipe to make it was lost. By piecing together ancient clues, could one man bring it back? At first, they just looked ...

How prized was Tyrian purple in ancient times? Highly. In fact, so popular and sought-after was the dye that traces of its production—clumps of pigments, remains of workshops—have surfaced in ...

A dig on the grounds of the Carlisle Cricket Club in the U.K. has turned up a mysterious lump of a substance that researchers have identified as the pigment Tyrian purple. Their latest discovery was ...

A New York hedge fund seeded by investing legend Julian Robertson is shutting down. Orlando Muyshondt's Tyrian Investments is closing, the fund has told investors. The fund was facing redemption ...

Cricket star Imran Khan today said he would welcome daughter Tyrian into his home following the death of her mother. Tyrian's mother, heiress Sita White, had a relationship with the former Pakistan ...