Archaeologists excavated 3,500-year-old ruins on Aegina island and found a purple dye workshop, a study said. Photo from the Paris Lodron University of Salzberg, Department of Classics/Classical ...
To the untrained eye, a heap of crushed shells and some purple pottery fragments might not look like much. But to archaeologists in Greece, these artifacts were remnants of a 3,500-year-old dye ...