EffortlessOps@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前If you were sent back to the roman era and could only bring a backpack of goods. What would you bring?message-squaremessage-square157linkfedilinkarrow-up1155file-text
arrow-up1155message-squareIf you were sent back to the roman era and could only bring a backpack of goods. What would you bring?EffortlessOps@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前message-square157linkfedilinkfile-text
If you were sent back to the roman era and could only bring a backpack of goods. What would you bring?
minus-squarehungryphroglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 年前I have heard that they have actually found silphium somewhere in Turkey (?) pretty recently! I’m not fully sure of this tho.
minus-squareRedAggroBest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 年前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.
minus-squareapfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 年前Yeah, as far as I have gathered from others, I work in the botany field, it is likely just another species in the genus.
I have heard that they have actually found silphium somewhere in Turkey (?) pretty recently! I’m not fully sure of this tho.
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.
Yeah, as far as I have gathered from others, I work in the botany field, it is likely just another species in the genus.