Show use ot of frankincense two thousand years ago frankincense was one ot of the most valuable and sacred commodities in the world every altar and every tu fu required this fragrant gum pliny wrote the heaps of odors that are plied piled up in honor of the bodies of the dead it is the luxury of man which Is displayed even in the paraphernalia of death that has rendered arabia thus happy it was arabia that had the monopoly of this rich trade and there only to the east cast of aden in that part of the country known as the madhra maut was the gum produced |