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Searching for Silphium
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  • silphium
  • silphion
  • archaeobotany
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This video is adapted from 10.3390/heritage5020051

From luxury spice to medical cure-all, silphium was a product coveted throughout the ancient world and occupied an essential place in the export economy of ancient Cyrene. The mysterious extinction of the silphium plant in the 1st century CE leaves us with little evidence as to the exact nature of this important agricultural product.

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Briggs, L.; Jakobsson, J. Searching for Silphium. Encyclopedia. Available online: https://encyclopedia.pub/video/323 (accessed on 01 May 2026).
Briggs L, Jakobsson J. Searching for Silphium. Encyclopedia. Available at: https://encyclopedia.pub/video/323. Accessed May 01, 2026.
Briggs, Lisa, Jens Jakobsson. "Searching for Silphium" Encyclopedia, https://encyclopedia.pub/video/323 (accessed May 01, 2026).
Briggs, L., & Jakobsson, J. (2022, June 01). Searching for Silphium. In Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.pub/video/323
Briggs, Lisa and Jens Jakobsson. "Searching for Silphium." Encyclopedia. Web. 01 June, 2022.
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