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Indiana. I've always taught that the color purple associated with royalty throughout the ancient world

was from a sea snail that was milked by the Phoenicians. You're here to correct me.

Good evening, great to be with you and I just really want to modify it because the tehelet in Hebrew the royal purple, the Tyrean purple that you mentioned an incredibly expensive ancient dye was associated with the city of Tyre, which was and had the largest iron age factories

producing the substance, may have been controlled not by the Phoenicians, but by the Kingdom of Israel,

and publishing the results of their excavation at

Telchikmona in the journal Tel Aviv archaeologists from Haifa

University suggests that during the ninth and eighth centuries B. C. E. The

kingdom of Israel controlled this and they may have hired

local Phoenicians to work on the project and it was a small village in the Iron Age by most standards, but they remade and fortified the imposing

walls around the city and within that context they produced this very special dye that was

used in religious purposes and others and that's why

Phoenician pottery was found at the site because it wasn't a Phoenician site

but they had hired these local people for the actual production of the color it. So this is the opening but new

phase. This is it expands explains Israel's expansion into the Carmel Coast at

several other sites including Teldoor which we have discussed and

tells us really where the with this purple dye may well have come from. The purple dye is not made from

a root or a flower but rather from the secretions of the Muir X

C snail as you referenced and the process of extracting it which made it so expensive

was very laborious it was very hard and each snail

contained less than a gram of the dye stuff so hundreds of snails were

required to dye one textile. Indiana back on the road with his bag of

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