Royal purple cloth from the time of the Old Testament found in Israel

“And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Hiram my father’s, the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson….”

A fascinating article has just been published in the Science Focus Magazine about the discovery of purple dyed cloth in Israel dating back 2500 – 3000 years. This dates the cloth to the period of David and Solomon and the construction of the First Temple.

Truly a discovery of Masonic importance!


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