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Tyrian purple made kings rich. But did this industrial powerhouse begin in ancient Israel?

Tyre gave the ancient world's most coveted dye its name. But new research points to a factory near Haifa, where Phoenician expertise and Israelite royal power transformed purple-dye production centuries earlier

Tyrian purple made kings rich. But did this industrial powerhouse begin in ancient Israel?

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