The predatory sea snails only live in the Eastern Mediterranean and off the Atlantic coast of Morocco. The dye was known as Tyrian purple as a reference to the city of Tyre, in modern-day Lebanon ...

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Creating the historic hue required an immense number of sea snails found along ... Once collected, the snails had to be kept alive until the purple dye makers were ready to crush them and extract ...