TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian history enthusiast is making dye from sea snail shells inspired by a school project decades ago on ancient Carthage and the purple colouring that brought fabulous wealth ...

A Tunisian man has pieced together bits of a local secret linked to ancient emperors: how to make a prized purple dye using the guts of a sea snail. "At the beginning, I didn't know where to start," ...

Poking his head out of the tiled garden outhouse in a Tunis suburb, Ghassen Nouira tells Middle East Eye, with a grin, how his work producing purple dye powder using millennia-old methods nearly cost ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) TYRIAN PURPLE DYE PRODUCER, MOUHAMAD GHASSEN NOUIRA, SAYING: "Our ancestors used to extract dye from the murex this way: they break the shell of the murex and then extract the ...

A Tunisian man has pieced together bits of a local secret linked to ancient emperors: how to make a prized purple dye using the guts of a sea snail. "I would crush the whole shell and try to ...

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