badaverd

Updated: May 15, 2025

The various treasures of gold, silver, gems, silks, and aromatics, were deposited in a hundred subterraneous vaults and the chamber Badaverd denoted the accidental gift of the winds which had wafted the spoils of Heraclius into one of the Syrian harbors of his rival.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4