"Ancient Yemen" at the Smithsonian

EXHIBITION: In ancient Yemen, a booming economy sparked cultures rivaling the Greeks and Romans. A newly-opened Smithsonian exhibit holds 2,000-year-old artifacts revealing a civilization in its golden age, with an incense trade that spanned the known world from Rome to India (RICH TENORIO, Times of Israel).

Ancient Greece and Rome are well represented in museums across the world, but the contemporaneous civilizations of Yemen — including a mysterious Jewish community — have received far less recognition. A new exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, seeks to correct this historical prejudice.

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For the late-antique Jewish kingdom of Himyar, see here and links.

For Matthew's Magi and their gifts, including frankincense, currently seasonally of interest, see here and links.

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