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The Incense Route: Frankincense and the Arabian Desert
Long before the Silk Road, another highway of commerce snaked through the deserts of southern Arabia, carrying frankincense and myrrh to the temples of Egypt, Greece, and Rome. This episode follows the Incense Route from the groves of Dhofar and Hadhramaut across the Empty Quarter to the Nabataean capital of Petra, and on to Gaza and the Mediterranean. We meet the traders who braved the Rub' al Khali, the kingdoms of Saba and Hadhramaut that grew rich on the harvest, and the ingenious underground aqueducts that made these desert cities possible. We look at how the Romans tried to control…
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