An analysis of incense burners discovered in the doomed city identified traces of resin imported from sub-Saharan Africa or ...

New research on Pompeii incense burners shows how aromas from local plants and imported resin shaped household rituals.

Learn how researchers decoded 2,000-year-old ash from Pompeii incense burners to reveal imported resins from Africa and Asia, ...

The destruction of Pompeii preserved ash residues on the household altars of its inhabitants. An international research team has scientifically investigated for the first time what was burned in Roman ...

In A Nutshell Scientists chemically analyzed ash from two ancient incense burners found in and near Pompeii, identifying for ...

Burning incense is believed to be a common practice amongst Roman households, as a way to sacrifice smoke to the gods. But ...

People in the Roman city of Pompeii, Italy, burnt aromatic resins imported from as far away as sub‑Saharan Africa and India ...

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A new chemical and microscopic analysis of Pompeii residues documents a sacrificial rite that had only been previously ...

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