Chemists re-examining the two altars from the Judahite shrine at Tel Arad, excavated in the 1960s and in use only around 760–715 BC, found THC, CBD and CBN in the residue on the smaller one: cannabis flowers mixed with animal dung so that they would burn slowly. The larger altar held frankincense. The authors, writing in the journal Tel Aviv, called it the earliest evidence for the use of cannabis in the Ancient Near East and suggested it was burnt for its effect, not its smell.[1][2]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Israel here.
References
- Cannabis and Frankincense at the Judahite Shrine of AradEran Arie, Baruch Rosen, Dvory Namdar · In Tel Aviv: Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University 47(1) · 2020 · pp. 5–28, doi:10.1080/03344355.2020.1732046archived
- Sci.News — Israeli scientists find traces of cannabis and frankincense on 2,700-year-old altars (29 May 2020)archived
Checked. The date and the event were compared with a source that was read.