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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mithridates, post: 2063901, member: 73314&quot;]The purple dye that came from the murex shell was extremely expensive and banned from use by anyone except the emperor during the imperial period. But also, urine was a main ingredient in making the dye and it had a terrible smell according to some writings found from the time. They&#039;ve done experiments to find out how the Romans made the dye and have found it takes about 20 murex shells just to make little more than a tea spoon of it. No wonder it was expensive and guess the status it implied made it worth the smell to them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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