Tough Valuable Sap Is a Gift for Plucky Kate ; Last Night's Television Jackie Butler Sees the Frankincense Trail, Bbc Two
Summary
MAKE a sharp cut in the bark of a frankincense tree and globules of milky white sap ooze out. Leave it to set on the trunk of the Boswellia sacra for a few days and you end up with a sticky resin so rare and precious that it was once considered more valuable than gold.
The story of how this unique, curious and ancient substance is harvested and traded across the modern Middle East is a fascinating one, tackled with game enthusiasm by Kate Humble for this three- part documentary.See the full content of this document
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Tough Valuable Sap Is a Gift for Plucky Kate ; Last Night's Television Jackie Butler Sees the Frankincense Trail, Bbc Two
Our Western knowledge of frankincense is limited, although most of us will recognise it from Christmas stories as...
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