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May 17, 2022

New Discoveries Show That the Ancient Incense Route Was a Two-Way Street

What caravans’ trash heaps reveal.

Mentioned in the book of Genesis, the Middle East’s incense route for many centuries brought myrrh, frankincense, and other goods from present-day Yemen to the Levant, and from there to the entire Mediterranean world. A recent study of trash heaps left behind by the caravans that traversed this path between shows that, contrary to what archaeologists previously believed, commerce along this route went in both directions. Amanda Borschel-Dan writes:

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