This same site has an article on that very myth: http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2016/12/salting-earth.html?m=1 http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2016/12/salt

This same site has an article on that very myth: http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2016/12/salting-earth.html?m=1 http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2016/12/salting-earth.html... To summarize, salting an area was a real thing, but the evidence suggests that it was done to make the land more fertile and not less. The idea was to replace your enemy's city with weeds and greenery, as if it had never existed.