Mangalamorganics·May 16, 2022Coronavirus pandemic may require the use of camphorIt is more than five months since our regular lives got shattered due to Coronavirus. Everybody is doing everything possible to keep the…
Medieval Indonesia·Jan 6, 2022Camphor in Medieval Persian PoetryThis post contains writing in the Perso-Arabic script, which Medium formatting doesn’t handle well (at least in combination with other…A response icon1
Medieval Indonesia·Sep 13, 2021Camphor in a Medieval Greek Sinbad StoryThis post is about references to camphor and sandalwood in a medieval Greek text from the Roman (‘Byzantine’) empire. This is only my…
Seedtolife·Mar 29, 2021Amazing Ancient History of CamphorIn my previous story on camphor trees, we saw how to grow camphor trees both in containers or ground. But do you know the uses of camphor…
Medieval Indonesia·Dec 25, 2020Two Early Descriptions of Camphor ProductionCamphor has come up several times on this blog. If you’ve read everything on the blog so far then you may be sick of it. This is yet…A response icon2