The predatory sea snails only live in the Eastern Mediterranean and off the Atlantic coast of Morocco. The dye was known as Tyrian purple as a reference to the city of Tyre, in modern-day Lebanon ...

Pieces of pottery stained with blue and purple dye made from murex sea snails are among the forgotten artifacts that sat in storage for about 50 years after they were excavated. They constitute ...

This sea snail isn't purple itself, but if disturbed it secretes a substance that gradually turns purple. As the name 'purple dye' suggests, the murex's secretion has been used as a fabric dye for ...

A rare dye made from snails for the robes of the Roman elite almost 2,000 years ago has been unearthed at a cricket club. The chunk of Tyrian purple, roughly the size of a ping pong ball ...