Comments on: The Vanilla Enigma: How a Canaanite Tomb Rewrote Spice History https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-israel/the-vanilla-enigma-how-a-canaanite-tomb-rewrote-spice-history/ Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:04:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Nathan Steinmeyer https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-israel/the-vanilla-enigma-how-a-canaanite-tomb-rewrote-spice-history/#comment-2000475977 Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:04:03 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=90671#comment-2000475977 In reply to James Carroll Kell.

Thanks for asking. This is the earliest evidence of the use of vanilla discovered. It certainly was used earlier, but we do not have archaeological evidence for it.

]]> By: James Carroll Kell https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-israel/the-vanilla-enigma-how-a-canaanite-tomb-rewrote-spice-history/#comment-2000475927 Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:34:36 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=90671#comment-2000475927 “World’s first use of Vanilla found at Tel Megiddo.” Since Vanilla clearly was not grown at Megiddo, and therefore came from somewhere else, where certainly it must have been used to flavor wines and other comestibles, how can its “first” use have been at Megiddo?

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