The roads that carried dates, incense and pilgrims across Arabia.
The Incense Route is an ancient trade road parallel to the Red Sea that carried frankincense, myrrh and dates by camel caravan through the Nabataean city of Hegra.
Darb Zubaidah is the Abbasid pilgrimage road from Kufa to Makkah; Zubaidah, wife of Harun al-Rashid, built its reservoirs and wells, and dates were the pilgrims' essential provision.
