**Tel Shiqmona during the Iron Age: A first glimpse into an ancient Mediterranean purple dye ‘factory’**
“_It is the only site in the Near East or around the Mediterranean—indeed, in the entire world—where a sequence of purple-dye workshops has been excavated and which has clear evidence for large-scale, sustained manufacture of purple dye and dyeing in a specialized facility for half a millennium, during the Iron Age (ca. 1100–600 BCE)._”
Shalvi G, Sukenik N, Waiman-Barak P, Dunseth ZC, Bar S, et al. (2025) Tel Shiqmona during the Iron Age: A first glimpse into an ancient Mediterranean purple dye ‘factory’. PLOS ONE 20(4): e0321082. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0321082.
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