This county produces pomegranates of incomparable beauty, excellent figs and grapes that are dried on fires (because the sun is always obscured by thick clouds).
Demand for pomegranates globally has spiked in recent years as health experts promote the "super fruit's" anti-oxidant, anti-carcinogenic and anti-inflammatory properties.
There were exotic spices such as paradise grains, cloves and pepper, exotic fruit such as pomegranates, ivory combs, cast bronze candlesticks and luxury ceramics.