For the first time, archaeologists discovered an industrial purple-dye factory that remained in business for 500 years between 1100 and 600 BCE in Israel, highlighting a famous and mysterious color in ...

A Oxford Journal of Archaeology publication by Reli Avisar examines how vassal kingdoms, elite consumption, and imported luxury goods shaped Iron Age Lachish and Jerusalem.

Valves of Glycymeris are encountered at most archaeological sites in the southern Levant, particularly those from the Iron Age, but also from earlier periods. Single valves have often been used as ...