Purple is known as a ‘royal’ color because it was the hardest dye to extract, as it came from sea snails, so only the royalty could afford it.
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Purple is known as a ‘royal’ color because it was the hardest dye to extract, as it came from sea snails, so only the royalty could afford it.
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I always wondered what that smell was at the palace.
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As most Byzantine emperors made it to the throne either through adoption or assassination, when one inherited it from his father he earned the name “Porphyrogenitus” — “Born to the Purple”.
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