Sicily, Italy
Mount Etna
The Greek historian Thucydides and the philosopher Aristotle both wrote about Etna’s eruptions, noting their impact on the surrounding regions.
Ancient cinnamon
Herodotus, Aristotle, and others claimed Arabia as cinnamon's source, perpetuating the myth that giant "cinnamon birds" collected cinnamon sticks from distant lands to build their nests.
Hermes Trismegistus
He wrote a brief work (which reproduces the beginning of the Emerald Tablet), which passed to his disciple Pythagoras, then to Plato, Aristotle, and finally to Alexander the Great.