June 1, 2020 - Roughly 35 miles south of Jerusalem, in an archaeological site in the Negev desert known as Tel Arad, archaeologists excavating an ancient Jewish shrine have found traces of burnt cannabis and frankincense on a pair of limestone altars, reports Kristen Rogers of CNN.

May 29, 2020 - Analysis of the material on two Iron Age altars discovered at the entrance to the "holy of holies" of a shrine at Tel Arad in the Beer-sheba Valley, Israel, were found to contain Cannabis and Frankincense, according to new article in the journal, Tel Aviv. Past excavations revealed two superimposed ...

The ‘fortress mound’ of Tel Arad (Aharoni 1968; Aharoni, M. 1993; Herzog 2002) was excavated between 1962−1967 on behalf of the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, by Yo...

May 28, 2020 - Frankincense may have also been ... substance used in such a context. The animal fat present may have allowed the frankincense to burn at a higher temperature, which is required for frankincense to evaporate and release its fragrance....

June 17, 2020 - The theory that hashish, the plant’s ... — Eran Arie, Baruch Rosen and Dvory Namdar posit that, 2,700 years ago, the ancient Israelites used hashish mixed with animal dung to spark a level of ecstasy during worship......

May 29, 2020 - (Image credit: Tzadik Z; Public ... frankincense at the site, which was located in the Kingdom of Judah. Researchers made the discovery after analyzing ancient residues left on two altars at the shrine....

January 2, 2020 - Definitive evidence of frankincense as one component of the broader Arabian trade has been identified on residues from a late eighth century BCE altar from the temple at Tel Arad, providing a terminus ante quem for the origins of the aromatics trade in relation to the southern Levant · (Arie et al.

May 28, 2020 - Frankincense may have also been ... substance used in such a context. The animal fat present may have allowed the frankincense to burn at a higher temperature, which is required for frankincense to evaporate and release its fragrance....

It seems likely that cannabis was used at Arad as a deliberate psychoactive, to stimulate ecstasy as part of cultic ceremonies. If so, this is the first such evidence in the cult of Judah.” ... The use of the dung, which burns at a relatively low temperature, also indicates that the organizers ...

May 28, 2020 - Materials on altars from a religious shrine in Beer-sheba Valley, in Israel's biblical site Tel Arad, contained cannabis and frankincense, a study found. It's the first time physical evidence of cannabis has been identified in the Ancient Near East.

May 29, 2020 - Ancient Israelites burned cannabis as part of their religious rituals, an archaeological study has found. A well-preserved substance found in a 2,700-year-old temple in Tel Arad has been identified as cannabis, including its psychoactive compound THC.

May 28, 2020 - Chemical analyses reveal a residue of cannabis and animal dung on an altar from a biblical-era fortress in use more than 2,700 years ago.

May 26, 2020 - Analysis of the material on two Iron Age altars discovered at the entrance to the “holy of holies” of a shrine at Tel Arad in the Beer-sheba Valley, Israel, were found to contain Cannabis and Frankincense, according to new article in the journal, Tel Aviv.

TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP—Analysis ... Iron Age altars discovered at the entrance to the “holy of holies” of a shrine at Tel Arad in the Beersheba Valley, Israel, were found to contain Cannabis and Frankincense, according to new article in the journal, Tel Aviv. Past excavations revealed two superimposed fortresses, dated to the 9th to early 6th centuries BCE, which guarded the southern border of biblical Judah...

June 18, 2020 - Researchers in Israel recently published a study that suggests the ancient Israelites used cannabis mixed with animal dung during worship, based on chemical analysis of resin found on the limestone altars of a Tel Arad shrine.

April 27, 2023 - Analysis of the material on two Iron Age altars discovered at the entrance to the "holy of holies" of a shrine at Tel Arad in the Beer-sheba Valley, Israel, were found to contain Cannabis and Frankincense, according to a new article in the journal, Tel Aviv. Past excavations revealed two superimp

June 2, 2020 - Archaeologists in Israel have detected traces of cannabis on a 2,700-year-old altar found in an ancient Jewish shrine. The finding suggests ancient

January 31, 2022 - Judahite Shrine of Tel Arad from 8th century B.C.E. has residue of cannabis and of frankincense