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-Tyrian dye is a crimson colored dye made from a snail.  The dye was so expensive and valuable that only kings and wealthy nobles could afford garments dyed with it.  Tyrian Dye was one of the many innovations made by the Phoenicians.  Tyre, the capital or leader city of Phoenicia, was the Tyrian dye capital of the world.  (Manual pages 104-105)
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Justinian.jpg  '''DO NOT USE WIKIPEDIA FOR ANYTHING.rb'''
-Link above shows a picture of a man clothed in clothes dyed with Tyrian dye.
-Tyrian dye also led to the firm establishment of social classes and served as something that almost everybody wanted and would go to extreme levels to receive it.
-Stuart Randall