@book{dcd0f0344f504d3fb5a57d226bb17144,
title = "The Queen of Sheba's Gift: A History of the True Balsam of Matarea",
abstract = "Using written sources, visual data and archaeological material, the book reconstructs the cultural history of the balsam tree from Jericho and En-Gedi to Egypt, and from ancient times to the 17th century. It addresses the symbolic associations of balsam and the site of Matarea (where the last balsam tree died in 1615), the distribution of products from the tree through trade and diplomacy, and the applications of these products in medicine, ritual and the domestic environment. The book also establishes links with resin-producing trees from the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa.",
keywords = "botany, history of medicine, Middle East, Egypt, Islam",
author = "Milwright, {Marcus Charles Plowman}",
year = "2021",
month = feb,
day = "20",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780748668496",
series = "Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture",
publisher = "University of Edinburgh Press",
}