Two limestone monoliths, interpreted as altars, were found in the Judahite shrine at Tel Arad. Unidentified dark material preserved on their upper surfaces was submitted for organic residue analysi...

June 1, 2020 - "This is the first time that cannabis has been identified in the Ancient Near East; its use in the shrine must have played a central role in the cultic rituals performed there," says Eran Arie, an archaeologist with the Israel Museum in Jerusalem ...

January 31, 2022 - A study published in Tel Aviv in 2020 reveals that Marijuana residues were found at the shrine of Tel Arad. The residues from two altars were analyzed at two labs, revealing Frankincense and, on one altar, Marijuana mixed with dung.

May 29, 2020 - (Israel Museum/Laura Lachman) Israeli ... in southern Israel have found it contained a mixture of cannabis and animal dung, likely intended to “stimulate ecstasy” in Israelite worshipers, and said it constitutes the earliest ...

July 20, 2023 - While in some areas the use (medicinal, ... plant. The site, a Judahite shrine and altar at Tel Arad, Israel, dates to the Iron Age in the 8th century BCE....

May 29, 2020 - Cannabis residues have been found on an altar in an ancient desert temple in Israel.

May 29, 2020 - Researchers discovered burnt · cannabis and 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.

May 28, 2020 - Previous analyses of recovered pottery and documented historical events at the site indicate that the shrine was used from roughly 760 B.C. to 715 B.C. Excavations at Israel’s Tel Arad site in the 1960s uncovered the shrine amid the ruins ...

May 17, 2021 - Thanks to the new research applied ... · In the smallest altar they found THC, CBD and CBN rest, all of them components of the Cannabis Sativa plant. Together with this, they found manure residue y animal fat....

June 2, 2020 - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The ancient Israelites may have used cannabis to get high as part of their religious ritual, according to Israeli researchers who found residue of the drug at a nearly 3,000-year-old shrine.

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.

1 month ago - 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.

December 1, 2023 - In a research paper, the authors say the discovery from an 8th-century B.C. shrine at Tel Arad offers the first proof for “the use of mind-altering substances as part of cultic rituals in Judah,” including the first Jewish Temple that stood ...

May 29, 2020 - The burnt residue on the top of this altar contains compounds found in cannabis. It was excavated from the shrine at Arad and rebuilt in the Israel Museum from the original archaeological finds.

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 ...

May 29, 2020 - However, according to study author Eran Arie from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, very little evidence exists for the use of the plant in this region in antiquity. “This is the first time that cannabis has been identified in the Ancient Near ...

June 26, 2020 - The study, published in Tel Aviv, demonstrated that through analysis of remains atop two altars from the Judahite Shrine at Tel Arad, west of the Dead Sea, scientists identified frankincense on one and cannabis on the other.

June 17, 2020 - The earliest advocate of the religious ... was hemp, which derives from the marijuana plant. The theory that hashish, the plant’s resin, was widely consumed in ancient Israelite society received a major boost May 28, 2020, when the Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University published an article headlined “Cannabis and Frankincense at the Judahite Shrine of Arad.”...

June 26, 2020 - The study, published in Tel Aviv, demonstrated that through analysis of remains atop two altars from the Judahite Shrine at Tel Arad, west of the Dead Sea, scientists identified frankincense on one and cannabis on the other.

June 2, 2020 - In a research paper, the authors say the discovery from an eighth-century BC shrine at Tel Arad offers the first proof for the use of mind-altering substances as part of cultic rituals in Judah, including the first Jewish Temple that stood in ...