| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The first thing here especially noticeable is that Egypt requires for its consumption large quantities of spices, and is supplied with them, not by direct commerce with Arabia across the Red Sea, as we might have expected, but by caravans of merchants, who reach Egypt through Gilead and Southern Palestine. the large consumption of spices by the Egyptians is witnessed by Herodotus, who tells us tha
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