CIVILIZATION
PHOENICIAN
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What was Purple dye made from?¿De qué se hacía el tinte morado?
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Sea horseCaballito del mar
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Sea starsEstrellas de mar
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Sea snailsCaracoles de mar
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The most prized and expensive dye was called Tyrian purple, which came from small mollusks called murex snails. The natural historian Pliny remarked on the rather unpleasant smell of the murex conchylium-one of the marine gastropods often used to produce the prized purplish-red dye.
Detailed explanation-2: -Tyrian Purple (aka Royal purple or Imperial purple) is a dye extracted from the murex shellfish which was first produced by the Phoenician city of Tyre in the Bronze Age.
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