Incense Route
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Aksum | Much of the wealth of Axum derived from its control of the Incense trade | |
| Ancient Kingdom of Saba | "The Sabaeans appear to have dominated the southern part of the incense trade while the Nabateans controlled the northern part" (AB ev) | |
| Hegra | On the Nabataean incense land route between the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea and Mediterranean. | |
| Historic Jeddah | ||
| Incense Route of the Negev | Towns that prospered because of the profitable trade in frankincense (and myrrh) from south Arabia to the Mediterranean, which flourished from the 3rd century BC until the 2nd century AD | |
| Land of Frankincense | Site holds frankincense trees and the remains of a caravan oasis, which were crucial to the medieval incense trade | |
| Petra | Strategical position at a point where the Incense Route from Arabia to Damascus was crossed by the overland route from India to Egypt | |
| Socotra Archipelago | Socotra had become ?of major importance as a staging-post in the incense trade? by the middle of the first millennium BCE |
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