Making authentic Tyrian purple dye starts with extracting a murex snail gland. After a series of painstaking steps, Tunisian dye maker Mohamed Ghassen Nouira turns as much as 45 kilograms of snails ...

Bedford, Mass., Jan. 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Conagen announced the successful scale-up of its sustainable, cost-effective Tyrian purple, a historically coveted and expensive dye found in rare and ...

For thousands of years, one color rose above all others — and was worth more than its weight in gold, according to a fourth-century imperial edict. Tyrian purple was a highly prized pigment developed ...

The colour Purple is most famously associated with royalty. Learn the science behind Tyrian Purple, why this dye was more ...

How prized was Tyrian purple in ancient times? Highly. In fact, so popular and sought-after was the dye that traces of its production—clumps of pigments, remains of workshops—have surfaced in ...

For millennia, Tyrian purple was the most valuable colour on the planet. Then the recipe to make it was lost. By piecing together ancient clues, could one man bring it back? At first, they just looked ...

Though the stories vary, all agree that it began with a dog. The Greek version is that the demigod Heracles and his dog were walking along a beach to visit a nymph. The dog gnawed on a snail and ended ...

Archaeologists in the United Kingdom uncovered a “mysterious lump,” identified as rare Tyrian purple pigment, at a 1,700-year-old Roman bathhouse. Photo from Wardell Armstrong Archaeologists and ...

Conagen is the world’s first and only biotechnology company commercializing a sustainable Tyrian purple by fermentation. As with any biologically-sourced textile dye, this color-fast compound reduces ...

New era for green tech alternatives to replace petrochemical synthesized dyes. Conagen is the world’s first and only biotechnology company commercializing a sustainable Tyrian purple by fermentation.