Everyman
The Gift of lncense
1993 • E22 Dec 19, 1993
In the last of this special
Everyman series, Emma Freud goes on a trek across the Arabian deserts in search of frankincense - one of the gifts of the Three Wise Men. She travels the route taken 2,000 years ago when the incense, then as valuable as gold, was carried to temples in the Mediterranean. The journey takes her from the wildness of the frankincense groves in Oman to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. She uncovers an ancient and mysterious world of lost cities, strange customs and passionate beliefs.
Everyman series, Emma Freud goes on a trek across the Arabian deserts in search of frankincense - one of the gifts of the Three Wise Men. She travels the route taken 2,000 years ago when the incense, then as valuable as gold, was carried to temples in the Mediterranean. The journey takes her from the wildness of the frankincense groves in Oman to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. She uncovers an ancient and mysterious world of lost cities, strange customs and passionate beliefs.