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Old May 20th, 2005, 02:39 PM
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Originally posted by jpatterson:
My point is that salt was much more important to the people of antiquity than most people realize.
Indeed! I saw a documentary about salt here on Swedish television, and it was absolutely fascinating stuff, the way salt was of the top-three-or-so strategic resource for hundreds of years. Salt was, of course, one of the few alternatives when it came to storing food for prolonged periods of time, and as such vitally important to many countries.

More shows on salt I say! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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