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Omani Frankincense Study
Traditional Chinese medicine scholar Zhao Zhongzhen took two boxes of Omani frankincense to China after visiting the Sultanate in 1990. One was kept at a research institute, and the other was donated to the Hong Kong Museum of Chinese Medicine. Thirty-five years later, he returned to Oman and, in 2026, took part in a study that concluded that frankincense from Oman’s **Boswellia sacra** trees was one of the principal historical sources of the Arabic frankincense that reached China as early as the Han dynasty. The study also documented a classification of frankincense into four types according to their regions of production. It noted that the classification and scientific names in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia might be reviewed, but no official changes have been adopted so far.
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