The Semitic kingdoms of southern Arabia waxed rich during the first millennium B.C. by controlling the trade in frankincense and myrrh. Why they waned a few centuries later is a question still ...

It was only later when I was doing a book on the Jews of the Yemen that I picked up the trail again in southern Arabia. It was a wonderful, wonderful quest and it was very meaningful for me—the ...

Nehmé Movements of people along routes of trade were bringing new commodities northwards, such aromatics including frankincense, a resin formed from the sap of a tree native to southern Arabia ...