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Rare purple textiles from the time of biblical kings found for the first time in Israel – Livescience.com
The color was a favorite of the biblical kings David and Solomon.
Archaeologists have uncovered rare fragments of 3,000-year-old textiles stained purple a color considered the height of royal fashion at the time in southern Israel
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The archaeologists discovered the purple textiles which included bits of woven fabric, a tassel and a bundle of wool fibers at Slaves’ Hill in Timna Valley, an ancient copper
production district in the Arava desert, the team wrote in a new study describing the findings.
Radiocarbon dating of the fabrics revealed that they were woven…
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