The plant’s exact identity is unknown to this day, since it went extinct in Roman times. It was a major cash crop of Cyrene, Libya, and even depicted on coins. It was used as seasoning, perfume, aphrodisiac, contraceptive and abortifacient. The last specimen was supposedly given to Emperor Nero.
with as many seeds that israeli archeologists regularly turns up in clay pots, like the judean date palm seeds which were 2000 years old, it’s not without precedent that at some point this silphium could be found and resurrected
I don’t know why you are getting downvoted, I also think it would be amazing if that happened
Have we learned nothing from Jurassic Park?
Jurassic Park but with plants sounds buck wild.