{"id":1585,"date":"2024-06-03T18:25:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T01:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2024-06-03T18:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T01:25:22","slug":"purple-treasure-found-under-a-cricket-club-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/purple-treasure-found-under-a-cricket-club-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple treasure found under a cricket club in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/7291bea346300f1bea307838e\/images\/82e02b29-b8ac-73eb-1383-576c3e7d70eb.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Tyrian Purple Dye Found Intact in the UK<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#651f76\">So you\u2019ve heard that purple is the color of royalty. By now you might know the first purple dyes were found in Phoenicia around 1,300 BCE, in a snail-like mollusk that was hard to get. It was so hard to obtain and difficult to extract \u2014 about 12,000 of the mollusks per 1.4 grams (0.05 ounces) to dye a single garment \u2014 that the resulting dye, Tyrian Purple, was worth more than gold.<br><br>In 2017, below ground at a UK cricket club of all places, an archeological site from Roman times revealed incredible finds. Most notable to us was the recent discovery of a golf-ball sized chunk of Tyrian Purple pigment, intact.<br><br>We already knew purple was the best color. Now we see a bit of history from purple fans of the past. As they might have said,\u00a0<strong>\u201c<em>Vivat purpura<\/em>.\u201d Long live purple!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Tyrian Purple Dye Found Intact in the UK <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#651f76\">So you\u2019ve heard that purple is the color of royalty. By now you might know the first purple dyes were found in Phoenicia around 1,300 BCE, in a snail-like mollusk that was hard to get. It was so hard to obtain and difficult to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[114,113,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}