The incense burners on Pompeii's domestic altars contained both local plants and aromatic chemicals imported from Africa and Asia. This is the conclusion of scientific examinations by a group of worldwide experts who examined what was burned in the Roman ritual braziers recovered in Pompeii. This demonstrates Pompeii's importance in a global trading network. The eruption of 79 AD, which was a catastrophic event for the Pompeii residents at the time, also presents an extraordinary opportunity for modern archaeology due to the site's exceptional preservation. Among the preserved relics are the ashes from the incense burners used by Pompeii residents to make incense sacrifices to the gods. Experts from the Universities of Zurich, Munich, Bonn, Kiel, and Dublin used cutting-edge laboratory techniques to examine the ashes of two incense burners, one from Pompeii and one from a villa in Boscoreale.