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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/video_detail/323 (accessed on 05 December 2025).
Briggs L, Jakobsson J. Searching for Silphium. Encyclopedia. Available at: https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/323. Accessed December 05, 2025.
Briggs, Lisa, Jens Jakobsson. "Searching for Silphium" Encyclopedia, https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/323 (accessed December 05, 2025).
Briggs, L., & Jakobsson, J. (2022, June 01). Searching for Silphium. In Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/323
Briggs, Lisa and Jens Jakobsson. "Searching for Silphium." Encyclopedia. Web. 01 June, 2022.
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