Search results
- Daily Telegraph
Purple fit for an emperor found in Roman bath-house near Hadrian’s Wall
Tyrian purple was reserved for the elite in antiquity and was worth more than gold in the Roman era. The pigment was found embedded in beeswax as part of an excavation of the bath house in Carlisle ...
5 days ago
- CBS News via Yahoo
"Incredibly rare" dye that was once worth more than gold found in U.K.
The discovery of the material has led researchers to believe that the building under excavation was related to the court and may have even meant that the Roman emperor at the time, Septimius ...
4 days ago