Where did this wellness craze spring from?

By Keith Austin
February 4 2017 - 12:15am

Wellness tourism, some sources suggest, began with the Mesopotamians in the 3rd century BC. They would travel long distances to a temple in the city of Tell Brak (today's northern Syria) in search of cures for eye ailments.

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