By Harry Baker - Staff Writer

The color was a favorite of the biblical kings David and Solomon.

A patch of 3,000-year-old wool dyed true purple, recently discovered in Timna Valley in Israel.

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.

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 around 1000 B.C., placing them in the time of the biblical kings David and Solomon — who ruled from 1010–970 B.C. and 970–931 B.C., respectively — in Jerusalem. The Bible mentions the kings and other important figures wearing the color during this time, according to the researchers.

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The dye used to stain the fabrics was made from mollusks found hundreds of miles away in the Mediterranean and was extremely valuable as a result. However, until now, no physical evidence of its use had ever been recovered in Israel or the rest of the southern Levant (an area encompassing the eastern Mediterranean).

"For the first time, we have direct evidence of the dyed fabrics themselves, preserved for some 3,000 years," Naama Sukenik, curator of organic finds at the Israel Antiquities Authority and lead author of the new paper describing the textiles, told Live Science in an email. "Each fragment gives us new information, tells us a new story about the site and important information about the people that lived there."

(Adapted from https://www.livescience.com/59693-could-earth-turn-into-venus. – Access on 07/28/20)

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