The great trade in aromatics from southern Arabia to the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome, lasted for over a thousand years. Luxury commodities were transported in caravans across the length of Arabia to the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. This book describes the uses of incense and other aromatics in ancient days. When Frankincense and Myrrh was first published in 1981 it broke new ground, filling a gap in our understanding not only of early Arabia, but of the ancient world as a whole.