The trees produce a gummy resin, like a scab ... Frankincense and myrrh have been burnt as incense for thousands of years, and both are deeply ingrained in religious ceremonial burnings.

Frankincense had calming, aromatic qualities and was mixed with a variety of spices to form incense, while myrrh was more ...

South Arabian farmers would harvest frankincense and other aromatic resins and spices, such as myrrh, bdellium, and myrobalan, in vast quantities, and send it north to market. Many routes ...

Recently, KAIMRC’s Sultan Alqahtani, in collaboration with Beni-Suef University in Egypt, found that this resin, known as myrrh, counteracts the damaging effects of ammonia excess, a common ...

Frankincense and myrrh, aromatic resins from spindly trees ... resulted in new evidence of the existence of the Incense Road, which was as important to the civilization of the West as the Silk ...