Silphium (also known as laserwort or laser; Ancient Greek: σίλφιον, sílphion) is an unidentified plant that was used in classical antiquity as a seasoning...
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Ferula drudeana (section Silphium hypothesis)
of Turkey. It has been proposed as a candidate for the fabled silphium plant of antiquity. It is known from only three locations in Turkey, all[verification...
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Heart symbol (section Similar shapes from antiquity)
traditional heart symbol and images of the fruit of silphium, a (probably) extinct plant known to classical antiquity and belonging to the genus Ferula, used as...
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Silphium is an unidentified plant recorded in classical antiquity, believed extinct. Silphium or Silphion can also refer to: Silphium (genus) of North...
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Wallonia Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous, a lecture series Silphium (antiquity), an extinct plant which produced the resin laser Atom laser All...
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Tunisia. It has been proposed as a candidate for the plant known in antiquity as silphium and gone extinct in Libya in the 5th century. "Thapsia gummifera...
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medicinal spices was used as early as the 7th century BCE and was known as Silphium, a plant that went extinct in the 1st century CE. Many spices originated...
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Childbirth and obstetrics in classical antiquity (here meaning the ancient Greco-Roman world) were studied by the physicians of ancient Greece and Rome...
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result of successive waves of immigration and the export of horses and silphium, a medicinal plant. By the fifth century BC, they had expanded their control...
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ground so as to not father a child with his deceased brother's wife Tamar. Silphium, a species of giant fennel native to north Africa, may have been used as...
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