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The Nabataean Camel Caravan: How Petra Fed the Incense Route
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the unsung heroes of the ancient incense trade: the Nabataean camel caravans that moved frankincense and myrrh from southern Arabia to the Mediterranean. Meet the dromedary, the 'ship of the desert,' whose domestication around 1000 BCE transformed long-distance trade. Learn how the Nabataeans bred and trained tens of thousands of camels, building rest stops and cisterns along the 1,500-mile Incense Route. Discover the economic scale: Pliny the Elder recorded that a single caravan could carry 3,000 talents of frankincense per year. The episode…
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