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Article: Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade.(The World Yesterday)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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NUMEROUS PIECES OF extraordinary art take center stage in the exhibition "Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade." Located on the Gulf of Aden at the south of the Arabian Peninsula and bordering the Arabian and Red Seas, this region once played a central role in an ancient "global economy" that extended from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean.
During a 1,400-year period between the eighth century B.C. and the sixth century A.D., the southern Arabian kingdoms of Saba (biblical Sheba), Qataban, and Himyar were home to sophisticated civilizations that flourished through their control of the trade in frankincense and myrrh. Now best-known as the ...