Tag Archive for 'Shrine'

The 2,000-year-old sacrarium found at Pompeii, Italy. Image credit: Parco Archeologico di Pompei.

2,000-Year-Old Shrine with Blue-Painted Walls Unearthed at Pompeii

Jun 10, 2024 by News Staff

Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed a so-called sacrarium at Pompeii, an ancient Roman city frozen in time after the catastrophic eruption of Mount...

Frontal view of the cella of the shrine at Arad, as rebuilt in the Israel Museum from the original archaeological finds. The inserts show a top-down view of the altars: on the left, the larger altar; on the right, the smaller altar. Note the visible black residue. Scale bar - 20 cm. Image credit: Laura Lachman / Israel Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority.

Israeli Scientists Find Traces of Cannabis and Frankincense on 2,700-Year-Old Altars

May 29, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

Israeli researchers have analyzed organic residues from two altars of the 8th century BC shrine at the Biblical fortress of Arad and found that one of...