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Default Fancy fish sauce and that extinct Roman treasure, silphium

I sometimes would wonder, if silphium was so important, why didn't they cultivate it? How could they let it go extinct? This video more or less answers that question - about halfway through.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=UUs...&v=D-QHd4_1geE


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