George Mason University researcher Andrea Weeks played a key role in identifying an ancient seedling linked to the biblical ...

Cited in the story of the birth of Christ in the Bible’s Book of Matthew, it was one of the precious gifts (alongside gold ...

Two millennia ago, in the Middle East, frankincense and myrrh were welcome gifts. The resins from frankincense and myrrh produce analgesia via the brain’s endogenous opiate receptors. The resins from ...

Myrrh Myrrh—isolated from the dried resin in the bark of either Commiphora ... The Egyptians used it to embalm mummies. The small tree is aromatic. Commiphora species are shrubs three meters ...

Scientists have resurrected a strange seed that was discovered in a cave in the Judean desert during the 1980s. According to ...

it was one of the precious gifts (alongside gold and myrrh) given to the baby Jesus by the three wise men. But there’s more to this ancient, aromatic tree resin than its Biblical association.

Residents of nine upazilas in Khulna and four upazilas in Satkhira have found a unique economic opportunity emerging from an unlikely, and somewhat unexpected source -- a type of tree resin known ...

Traditionally, the Rosca de Reyes should be shared on January 6th; this date marks the celebration of the Epiphany, when the ...

They gave them frankincense, gold and myrrh. Frankincense is a type of aromatic product from tree resin, as is myrrh. This is the only time that the number three appears in the account. It appears ...

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No space for a real tree? No worries at these gorgeous candles ... With some of these candles featuring complementary notes of resin, musk and myrrh, and others featuring fresher notes of ...