| The region around Tyre was well known in the ancient world for its purple dye made from the murex grandaris mollusc. |
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| However, the creatures inside murex shells are edible and are consumed in some parts of the world. |
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| The earliest form of purple dye was produced by squeezing shellfish called the murex sea mussel or porphura. |
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| The term codex aureus describes a volume with gold letters written on sheets that have been stained with a purple dye called murex. |
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| It was also renowned for its purple fabrics and that colour, made from the decomposition of a shellfish, the murex, became a world-wide symbol of royalty. |
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| The encyclopedia mentions different sources of purple dye, particularly the murex snail, the highly prized source of Tyrian purple. |
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| Punic interests were turned toward commerce rather than art, and Carthage controlled much of the Western trade in the luxurious purple dye from the murex shell. |
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| Onwards then to the shore, to the rocky north coast of Abel Tasman National Park, in search of a sea snail, the murex, that can weep violet tears. |
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| For molluscs like periwinkles and murex sea snails, a shell is a coat of armour. |
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| The two were obviously at war during the recent Murex D'or awards ceremony in Beirut, after Marwan admitted that Elissa patronised him at the event. |
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| On August 24, 1892, Murex became the first tanker to pass through the Suez Canal. |
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| Terrestrial snails in the genera Helix and Murex are raised for food. |
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