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This Ancient Factory Helped Purple Reign

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨silence7@slrpnk.net⁩ to ⁨nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz⁩

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/science/archaeology-tyrian-purple-murex.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aU0._jAC.omcC5NkXfWYQ&smid=url-share

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  • ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The most prized pigment of antiquity was processed not from a tangle of root or the frothy extract of a weed, but by drawing out a slimy secretion from the mucus glands behind the anus of murex sea snails …

    This is one of those things that makes a person go “how the fuck they find that out??”

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