3,000-year-old textiles are earliest evidence of chemical dyeing in the Levant
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 15:03
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Tel Aviv University archaeologists have revealed that cloth samples found in the Israeli desert present the earliest evidence of plant-based textile dyeing in the region. They were found at a large-scale copper smelting site and a nearby temple in the copper ore district of Timna in Israel's Arava desert and are estimated to date from the 13th-10th centuries BCE.