If you were sent back to the roman era and could only bring a backpack of goods. What would you bring?

  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    I have heard that they have actually found silphium somewhere in Turkey (?) pretty recently! I’m not fully sure of this tho.

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      9 months ago

      They made a guess that a plant native to Turkey was a good candidate, but it’s too far from Cyrene (most major exporter) to establish anything. Archeologists would basically need to find samples to confirm it’s identity.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, as far as I have gathered from others, I work in the botany field, it is likely just another species in the genus.