Most people know rosemary as a kitchen herb. Something you strip from a sprig and toss over roasted potatoes. But for most of human history, it meant something else entirely.

Greek students wore it before exams. Egyptian embalmers placed it in the hands of mummies. During the Black Death, people burned it in the streets hoping it might hold death at bay. A humble plant and yet, for thousands of years, one of the most trusted things a human being could carry.

This is Rosemary’s story.

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