Site holds frankincense trees and the remains of a caravan oasis, which were crucial to the medieval incense trade

Towns that prospered because of the profitable trade in frankincense (and myrrh) from south Arabia to the Mediterranean, which flourished from the 3rd century BC until the 2nd century AD

On the Nabataean incense land route between the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea and Mediterranean.

Much of the wealth of Axum derived from its control of the Incense trade

Socotra had become ?of major importance as a staging-post in the incense trade? by the middle of the first millennium BCE

Strategical position at a point where the Incense Route from Arabia to Damascus was crossed by the overland route from India to Egypt

"The Sabaeans appear to have dominated the southern part of the incense trade while the Nabateans controlled the northern part" (AB ev)