A dig at a coastal village in Israel has turned up remains of a large facility that once produced Tyrian purple on an ...

Across the ancient Mediterranean, few luxury commodities were as prized, rare, and expensive as Tyrian purple, a dye used in ...

Illustration by Aurélia Fronty Q: I’ve heard that purple was called the royal color because purple dye ... like madder. But the “Tyrian purple” associated with royalty—believed to have ...