Salt and the Civilised Mind

When biology met imagination, a mineral became the engine of history.

‘Nil sine sale’ (Nothing without Salt)
(Roman proverb from Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book 31, sections 39–41).

‘Salt is so common, so easy to obtain, and so inexpensive that we have forgotten that from the beginning of civilisation until about 100 years ago, salt was one of the most sought-after commodities in human history.’
(Mark Kurlansky, Salt:…