Celebrated color called Tekhelet identified in 2,000-year-old cloth
(NEWSER) - The Bible describes a shade of blue known as tekhelet, worn in ceremonial robes and considered the most important of the ritual colors—but the color's exact appearance has puzzled scholars, who have compared it to the color of sapphires, the sea, and the sky, for centuries. Now, an Israeli researcher has pinpointed what he calls the first known example of the hue, found on a 2,000-year-old piece of cloth—and it’s closer to “bluish purple” than tradition holds, the New York Times reports. More»
