In England, Archaeologists found a mysterious purple lump and it turns out that this was at one time worth more than gold. The lump was actually a very rare purple dye that was used in ancient ...
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A dig on the grounds of the Carlisle Cricket Club in the U.K. has turned up a mysterious lump of a substance that researchers have identified as the pigment Tyrian purple. Their latest ...
Purple was a symbol of wealth and the color of royalty in classical Rome. Furthermore, even if purple is flamboyant and attractive, its cost was more significant at the time. Tyrian purple dye was ...
The Kangju people lived in Central Asia (southern Kazakhstan) for nearly a millennia, but experts know very little about them. A new discovery of artifacts, recovered from a 2,000-year-old burial ...
The first time Lydia Bulas chased a private jet down the runway at Florida’s Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport, it was May of 1983 and America was losing the war on drugs. She was a 31-year-old ...
We thought we broadly understood how planets and stars form. But the discovery of dozens of pairs of young planets in a nearby nebula threatens to turn that on its head. They are worlds that ...
A journey into the eye-opening realm of insects to explore how scientists are using traditional and cutting-edge techniques to search for a single, common insect ancestor. Show more Insects are ...
Matthew Trickett, 37, who was allegedly charged with spying for China died under 'unexplained' circumstances, and a police investigation is ongoing. Watch to know more.
Artist's view of exoplanet SPECULOOS-3 b orbiting its star. The planet is as big as the Earth, while its star is slightly larger than Jupiter, but much more massive. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via Courthouse ...