{"id":27548,"date":"2026-06-06T20:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T20:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/06\/06\/ancient-romans-were-obsessed-with-this-remarkable-herb-then-it-vanished-forever\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T20:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T20:13:16","slug":"ancient-romans-were-obsessed-with-this-remarkable-herb-then-it-vanished-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/06\/06\/ancient-romans-were-obsessed-with-this-remarkable-herb-then-it-vanished-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Romans Were Obsessed With This Remarkable Herb \u2013 Then It Vanished Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/ancient-romans-were-obsessed-with-this-remarkable-herb-then-it-vanished-forever\/\" title=\"Ancient Romans Were Obsessed With This Remarkable Herb \u2013 Then It Vanished Forever\"><\/a>Silphium was an extinct Libyan plant renowned for contraception, medicine, and trade. Its disappearance remains a historical mystery, and scientists continue searching for surviving descendants. Roman leader Julius Caesar is said to have kept a stock of it in the treasury. Ancient writer Pliny the Elder says Rome\u2019s Emperor Nero owned the last stalk of [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silphium was an extinct Libyan plant renowned for contraception, medicine, and trade. Its disappearance remains a historical mystery, and scientists continue searching for surviving descendants. Roman leader Julius Caesar is said to have kept a stock of it in the treasury. Ancient writer Pliny the Elder says Rome\u2019s Emperor Nero owned the last stalk of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/06\/06\/ancient-romans-were-obsessed-with-this-remarkable-herb-then-it-vanished-forever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ancient Romans Were Obsessed With This Remarkable Herb \u2013 Then It Vanished Forever&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}