Vanilla Residue Has Been Discovered In A 3,600-Year Old Bronze Age Canaanite Tomb In Israel
A team of archaeologists has recently discovered vanilla residue in a 3,600-year-old Bronze Age Canaanite tomb in Tel Megiddo, Israel, and is currently trying to learn where the vanillin compound may have originated from as well as what its use may have been at the burial site where it was found.
As the Times of Israel reports, it is Tel Aviv University’s Prof. Israel Finkelstein and his team of archaeologists and excavators that can be credited for the astonishing discovery of the ancient vanilla in a location that is now being called Tomb 50.
Perhaps one of the things that has most surprised people about this particular find is that vanilla was reportedly believed to have come from South America at a distance of 13,000 miles away and was also not believed to have been in use 3,600 years ago.
