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The Color Purple. In Ancient Israel Author: Gary Byers MA Created: 13 May 2021
In January 2021, the Central Timna Valley (CTV) Project published in the online journal
PLOS ONE the results of their excavation of an ancient copper mining and smelting operation in southern Israel, along with an analysis of three specific items found in the excavation. Their report offered to the world – because this respected peer-reviewed research journal is available online to everyone – a special look into the world of the ancient Near East and the Bible.
Timna Copper Purple
Three dyed textile fragments were excavated at a site named “Slave’s Hill” by archaeologists in the 1930s. It is within a copper mining and smelting production district in the Timna Valley of southern Israel – once the territory of the ancient kingdom of Edom. In a shallow depression just above bedrock within a mixed locus of reddish sediments and crushed sandstone, wool yarn
Burning rubber has never looked this beautiful.
A burnout is not a particularly beautiful thing. Sure, it s loads of fun to make noise and smoke out of fuel and rubber, but there isn t a whole lot of skill involved - although some people could use a lesson - and it s a pretty wasteful practice that puts unnecessary strain on your mechanical components while burning fuel and rubber for no benefit. But that doesn t mean we don t like watching them happen. We like seeing a burnout from a fresh perspective too, and fitting a camera inside a tire is one way of doing that. Another is to fit a drone with an infrared camera, and the results are even more spectacular than we could have imagined.
globalization. another highly prized pigment was tyrian purple discovered by the phoenicians making it involved extracting a mucous accretion from sea snails. that reportedly took a quarter of a million of them to die one garment in ancient rome emperor nero band of purple clothing for anyone but himself on pain of death. fancy pigments fell out of favor in europe after the roman empire collapsed before making a comeback though food was scarce around eight hundred charlemagne ordered the cultivation of plants that yielded pigments that contributed to an economic upswing as towns with textile dying workshops flourished. the greatest advance was the creation of the first synthetic dye movie by a british chemist william henry perkin in eight hundred fifty six his accidental discovery formed the basis for a new chemical industry and eventually for the pharmaceutical industry and ellen
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