moluccas

Charred cloves from the Moluccas (south of the Philippines) were recently found in in a jar in burnt-out remains of a 4000-year-old middle-class kitchen in Syria.

I don't know if finding cloves from the Moluccas in a middle-class house in Syria in 2000 BCE is more, or less astonishing.

Mace and cloves only grew in the southern moluccas and when the Dutch took over from the Portuguese they genocide the local Melanesian population with the help of some peoples of the western islands.

It's possible there was centuries-long trade between Vikings and Arabs that stopped at the Horn of Africa, because Arabs kept the route to India, Malacca and the Moluccas a mostly well-guarded secret against Europeans.

>Charred cloves from the Moluccas (south of the Philippines) were recently found in in a jar in burnt-out remains of a 4000-year-old middle-class kitchen in Syria.

That is a 24,000 km trip in a straight line (from Spain to the Moluccas, the Spice Islands) for which he was absolutely unprepared.

The Spice Islands (the Moluccas) are in Eastern Indonesia.

It is in Maluku Utara (North Moluccas) Island.

昆侖國 ("The Country of Kunlun"), an ancient Chinese term apparently broadly used to refer to a general swathe of southerly island Southeast Asia circa the Moluccas, equivalent to period Sanskrit Dvipatala or Pali Dipattala (also Jipattala, Nipattala).

昆侖國 ("The Country of Kunlun"), an ancient Chinese term apparently broadly used to refer to a general swathe of southerly island Southeast Asia circa the Moluccas, equivalent to period Sanskrit Dvipatala or Pali Dipattala (also Jipattala, Nipattala).

That is a 24,000 km trip in a straight line (from Spain to the Moluccas, the Spice Islands) for which he was absolutely unprepared.

The Spice Islands (the Moluccas) are in Eastern Indonesia.

It is in Maluku Utara (North Moluccas) Island.