Jordan: The Dead Sea, Balsam, and Cleopatra’s Monopoly – The History of Fresh Produce
Why did Cleopatra demand the balsam groves of Jericho as the price of financing Marc Antony’s wars — and what does it mean that a plant worth twice its weight in gold was guarded day and night by Roman soldiers after the conquest of Jerusalem? What was the balm of Gilead, the most expensive agricultural […]