2023-08-22 07:16:19
The plant, which was used in ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt and was thought to have become extinct 2000 years ago, was discovered. Known since ancient times as a miracle plant, this plant with flowers with yellow petals was discovered in Turkey. This plant was known as Silpheon or Silphium. This plant was discovered by a botany professor in Turkey.
Silphium was a very popular plant before the Greek and Roman empires ascended to Peruma. The plant was crushed and boiled whole, including its flowers. It was used in food and medicine.
Historians say that during the time of Julius Caesar, the famous general of Rome, thousands of such plants were kept in the royal treasury of Rome. These were the same price as silver metal.
Historical records show that they flourished along the coast of ancient Cyrenaica in present-day Libya. But following this Silphium disappeared from the world. Pliny the Elder records in his book Natural History that he found such a plant in the 1st century AD and gave it to the Emperor Nero.
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Inspired by ancient inscriptions, medieval explorers conducted extensive searches for silphium on the continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe. But this was not found. Silphium is the first recorded plant to become extinct in the world.
Mahmut Miski, a researcher at Istanbul University in Turkey, has come forward with the claim that this plant has been rediscovered. He says that the plant Ferula drudena, which grows in the mountains of Mount Hasan in Turkey, is Silphium.
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