Retracing the incense route. (south Arabia and its incense trade with markets in the north some 2,000 years ago)

The Middle East | February 1, 1993| | Copyright

The material wealth flowing into the Arabian Peninsula in the twentieth century, though massive, will probably never rival the relative prosperity that reigned there at the height of the incense trade 2,000 years ago. For more than a millennium, trading caravans from the south Arabian coast supplied sweet-smelling incense resins, spices, and other luxury goods to insatiable markets in the Mediterranean and Mesopotamian regions. As a result, Arabia, in particular the region of present-day eastern Yemen and western Oman, were transformed into one of the epoch's wealthiest ...

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