Early evidence of royal purple dyed textile from Timna Valley (Israel)

• Naama Sukenik ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Naama Sukenik, Erez Ben-Yosef

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: naamasuk@gmail.com, naamas@israntique.org.il (NS); ebenyose@tauex.tau.ac.il (EB-Y)

  Current address: National Treasures Department, Israel Antiquities Authority, Beth Shemesh Storage and Research Facility, Beth Shemesh Industrial Zone West, Israel

  Affiliation National Treasures Department, Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9572-7258

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• David Iluz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat- Gan, Israel

  Affiliations The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Environmental Sciences and Agriculture Department, Beit Berl College, Beit Berl, Israel

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• Zohar Amar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: The Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

  Affiliation The Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

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• Alexander Varvak,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat- Gan, Israel

  Affiliation The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

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• Orit Shamir,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: National Treasures Department, Israel Antiquities Authority, Beth Shemesh Storage and Research Facility, Beth Shemesh Industrial Zone West, Israel

  Affiliation National Treasures Department, Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Erez Ben-Yosef

  Contributed equally to this work with: Naama Sukenik, Erez Ben-Yosef

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: naamasuk@gmail.com, naamas@israntique.org.il (NS); ebenyose@tauex.tau.ac.il (EB-Y)

  Current address: Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9483-3809

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