Researchers suggest saffron was 1st domesticated in Bronze Age Greece

Researchers said artworks, genetics both pointed out that saffron or Crocus sativus, world's costliest spice, was first domesticated in Bronze Age Greece, around 1700 BC or earlier. Team revealed that artworks from ancient Greece's Minoan civilisation were likely the oldest to depict use of domesticated saffron. Scientists also found flowers with similar traits depicted on ceramics and cloth.