Basalt as ships' ballast and the Roman incense trade

Contents <br/>Introduction (David Peacock and David Williams); The incense kingdoms of Yemen: An outline history of the south Arabian Incense trade (Caroline Singer); Basalt as ships' ballast and the Roman incense trade (David Peacock, David Williams and Sarah James); The Port of Qana' and the incense trade (Alexander Sedov); Frankincense in the 'triangular' Indo-Arabian-Roman aromatics trade (Sunil Gupta); Incense in Mithraic ritual: the evidence of the finds (Joanna Bird); Incense and the port of Adulis (David Peacock and Lucy Blue); Frankincense and myrrh today (Myra Shackley).