MUREX AND PURPLE

The color purple was discovered in 1400 BC on the shore of Tire Beach and then spread throughout the Phoenician coast, but the virtue of its international success is attributed to Tire; the legend of the purple discovery of the god Melcart-Hercules is attributed to the Phoenician coast, His dog discovered the Murex shell which, when he tried to eat it, dyed his hat in a brilliant color unknown then. Wishing this strange color, the nymph asked God to make her a robe of the same color, so as to please his sweetheart he ordered to collect the sea shells and prepare a tint of this scarlet color and make a charming dyed jacket that delighted the heart of the fairy. The seashells gather in the sea in early spring, Mating before egg-laying. After being transported to the beach where it emptied into large basins, it was removed from the shells and left to rot, then crushed to release the colored tints that contain them. After three days, the resulting liquid is mixed with sea salt.....etc