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The surprising reason why almost no flags feature the colour purpleThe dye was known as Tyrian purple as a reference to the city of Tyre, in modern-day Lebanon, from which the Phoenician traders controlled the flow of dye. The snails were lured into baited traps ...
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The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to KnowThe Phoenicians were best known for manufacturing a purple dye they extracted from murex shellfish. It was known throughout the Mediterranean and Near East as “Tyrian purple.” Modern scholars ...
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