More on that insect-dyed fabric

ANCIENT ENTYMOLOGICAL ADORNMENT: Early Red Dye Made From Insects Used in Pre-biblical Israel. Hundreds of fabric pieces found in Cave of Skulls by the Dead Sea date from Chalcolithic to Roman period – and some are startlingly scarlet (Ruth Schuster, Haaretz).

I posted on this story last week, but Ms. Schuster's characteristically well-researched article deserves to be noted for its additional entymological and cultural background information.

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