TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian history enthusiast is making dye from sea snail shells inspired by a school project decades ago on ancient Carthage and the purple colouring that brought fabulous wealth ...

Have you ever had kin that you couldn't honestly see being related to you: Maybe the redheaded cousin in a clan of brunettes or a fair-haired child among six siblings with raven locks? Mother Nature ...

A Tunisian man has pieced together bits of a local secret linked to ancient emperors: how to make a prized purple dye using the guts of a sea snail. "At the beginning, I didn't know where to start," ...

Poking his head out of the tiled garden outhouse in a Tunis suburb, Ghassen Nouira tells Middle East Eye, with a grin, how his work producing purple dye powder using millennia-old methods nearly cost ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract ABSTRACT: We documented positive interactions created by aggregations of black murex snail Hexaplex nigritus that support an epifaunal ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This shell brooch was made by Ruth ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This shell necklace was made by Ruth ...

Florida researchers recently found a green sea turtle with an unwanted guest hitching a free ride on its back. Biologists at Inwater Research Group based in Jensen, Fla., found the sea turtle with a ...

A rare combination of sea and weather conditions washed up shellfish along area shorelines in recent days, leaving a thick band of sea life on the sand. On Crescent Beach, birds swooped in for easy ...