A plant used by the ancient Greeks for medicine, food and even contraception, was one of the most sought-after goods in the ...

In the 6th century BC, while Rome was still a minor city-state in the Italian peninsula, the ancient city ... illustrations ...

Miski found it has similarities with the silphion plant that line ... ancient Greeks thousands of years ago. The only images of the ancient silphium have been found engraved on Cyrenacian coins ...

Silphium is a herb that may have not looked the most pretty or striking, but in the ancient city of Cyrene ... And here is a coin of Cyrene showing the silphium plant on the reverse - image ...

An ancient plant hailed as a panacea that was consumed by most ancient Mediterranean cultures and believed to be extinct may have ... silphion — also known as silphium — was used in classical ...