Beginning around 3000 years ago, Tel Shiqmona in modern-day Israel was a major centre for the production of Tyrian purple, a ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

The 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 ...