Mouhamad Ghassen Nouira works from a hut in his garden to process murex snails using techniques first developed by the Phoenicians to produce a dye known as Tyrian purple that sells online for about $2,500 a gram.
"This hobby started when I was a boy in history class studying the Canaanites, the Phoenicians and the Carthaginians and how they were famous for extracting purple from murex and it was more expensive than gold," Nouira said. Under its greatest general Hannibal, who marched war elephants across Spain and over the Alps, Carthage nearly conquered Italy. But it was Rome that finally prevailed.
As the centuries passed, the secret of turning murex into Tyrian dye was gradually lost until a few enthusiasts started trying to recreate the formula.
I AM THE LORD JESUS CHRIST YHWH.I DON'T WANT WAR IN THE WORLD,I DON'T WANT HUNGER IN THE WORLD, I DON'T WANT ANYONE DESTROYING THE EARTH AND THE LIVES OF ANIMALS,I WILL RELEASE ALL CURSES ON EVERYONE I WILL BURN EVERYTHING THAT HAS LIFE IF I DON'T STOP EVIL AM I SPEAKING GREEK?
george_chen What ecological effect?
Why people from that religion are so crual?!
Gary is not happy about this.
Do we really need to be killing snails to get what we can now achieve my mixing dyes ?