Wealthy Roman men wore togas as a sign of both status and citizenship. ... while purple and gold-embroidered togas were worn by triumphant generals, according to the World History Encyclopedia.

A marble statue of a man, dressed in a toga and holding a scroll, was found by construction workers in the city of Varna, previously the ancient city of Odessa, with very little damage.

The image of a toga-wearing Roman faded by late antiquity. In this video, we explore how late Roman citizens, soldiers, and officials dressed after the 3rd century AD and how their attire reflected a ...

Related article ‘Incredibly fascinating’ Roman, ... There are depictions of Julius Caesar wearing deep purple togas, and during the Byzantine Empire, AD 330 to 1453, ...

The 2nd-century Greco-Roman scholar Julius Pollux even immortalized the discovery of the pigment in his story about Hercules’s dog finding and biting a sea snail, which stained its tongue purple.

Purple was labor-intensive, ... according to a Roman edict issued in 301 A.D. — that its use was reserved for ... who were allowed to wear broad bands of purple at the edges of their togas. ...

Archaeologists in the United Kingdom uncovered a “mysterious lump,” identified as rare Tyrian purple pigment, at a 1,700-year-old Roman bathhouse. Photo from Wardell Armstrong Archaeologists ...

A rare, 3,600-year-old purple dye workshop uncovered on a Greek island sheds light on the mysteries surrounding the once revered hue, according to archaeologists.