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NY Times article on Shiqmona (White Levy funded project)

March 12, 2024

 

A project by Drs. Ayelet Gilboa and Golan Shalvi ("Shiqmona / Tell a-Samakh: A Late Bronze Age Temple Site and Iron Age Purple Dye Production Facility in Southern Phoenicia." Grant awarded 2021) is featured in a New York Times article from 3/5/24.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/science/archaeology-tyrian-purple-murex.html
 

An article on the publication project has been released by the authors:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0321082


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