Poking his head out of the tiled garden outhouse in a Tunis suburb, Ghassen Nouira tells Middle East Eye, with a grin, how his work producing purple dye powder using millennia-old methods nearly cost ...

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 ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) TYRIAN PURPLE DYE PRODUCER, MOUHAMAD GHASSEN NOUIRA, SAYING: "Our ancestors used to extract dye from the murex this way: they break the shell of the murex and then extract the ...

A storehouse of ancient treasures, including precious jewels and gold beads, has been uncovered by archaeologists on an island near Crete devoted to making a precious purple dye from sea snails ...

Bedford, Mass., Jan. 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Conagen announced the successful scale-up of its sustainable, cost-effective Tyrian purple, a historically coveted and expensive dye found in rare and ...