Arch-Tech: Purple Threads from the Days of David and Solomon

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Because of their nature as organic materials that inevitably decompose, textiles rarely survive in the archaeological record. When circumstances align for their preservation, these fragile artifacts provide a window into the social, economic, and technological spheres of the ancient world.

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Footnotes

1. For more on Timna, Edom, and mines in the Faynan, see Erez Ben-Yosef, Archaeological Views: “Biblical Archaeology’s Architectural Bias,” BAR, November/December 2019; Mohammad Najjar
and Thomas E. Levy, “Condemned to the Mines: Copper Production & Christian Persecution,” BAR, November/December 2011.

2. Hershel Shanks, First Person: “Life Was Not So Bad for Smelters,” BAR, January/February 2015.

Endnotes

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Naama Sukenik, David Iluz, Zohar Amar, Alexander Varvak, Orit Shamir, and Erez Ben-Yosef, “Early Evidence of Royal Purple Dyed Textile from Timna Valley (Israel),” PLoS ONE 16.1 (2021): e0245897 (doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245897).