She added, “The gorgeous shade of the purple, the fact that it does not fade, and the difficulty in producing the dye, which is found in minute quantities in the body of mollusks, all made it the most ...

It turned out to be a 1,600-year-old fabric fragment woven with gold threads. A team of archaeologists spent several months of 2020 excavating a massive ancient burial ground in Autun. The site ...

The archaeologist who found the dye says that the site could date back as far as 200 AD. And it seems that Britain's association of purple with royalty has not yet faded, as King Charles III's ...