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To: SunkenCiv

Could this portend the scholars finding the holy blue dye, Techelet, from the Bible and what might come after.


5 posted on 04/20/2025 9:01:15 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: higgmeister

I was wondering the same thing:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/jerusalem-museum-untangles-history-color-blue-biblical-hue-ancient-royalty-180970356/


8 posted on 04/20/2025 9:55:16 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: higgmeister

They recently found that blue dye, actually.

It’s from a shellfish called chilazon.


13 posted on 04/21/2025 2:07:22 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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