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Tyre and Sidon in Lebanon are the primary producers of rare and valuable purple dyes in biblical days. But archaeologists have never found any direct evidence about the fabrication of it.
Until now, in some relics at Tel Shikmona, near Haifa in Israel. The former Byzantine settlement had already existed a massive manufacturing facility.
Pigment dye is created from the snail line with a conversion rate of thousands of snails per kilogram of dyes. And that's why the ancient people considered it a royal color, only for the wealthy, noble and supreme priests.