A development project in a city of northern Italy quickly morphed into a large-scale archaeological dig when the first traces ...
After detailed scans of the find and a yearslong preservation process, experts identified the material as a 1,600-year-old purple fabric woven with gold threads. Its purple dye, now faded to a red ...
Archaeologists found the ancient graveyard during construction work and, so far, have excavated less than half of it.