<div dir="ltr"><<Not clear to me what the chidush is in this article. The item they found is<br>
not tzitzit. We already know that trunculus murex was used to produce dye,<br>
based on archaeological evidence of dye factories with murex shells.<br>
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By the way, if you look up at the top of the sky, even at midday on a sunny<br>
day, it is a relatively dark blue and not dissimilar to the colour of ptil<br>
tekhelet tizitzit. Pale "sky blue" is more what you see looking straight<br>
ahead, at the sky near the horizon.>><br><br>The material that was found was a darker blue than that of ptil techelet.<br>This was much closer to black.<br><br>I will check with Dr. Zvi Koren for more details. I could not make the lecture but<br>
he said he would give (eventually) a private lecture<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Eli Turkel<br>
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