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Re:Ancient Egyptian coffins and mystery of ‘black goo’ by twic on Monday May 25, 2020 @05:54AM (#23299580)
It's also used to flavour a kind of festive brioche:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsoureki

And liqueur:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastika

Etymologically, it looks like the root word means "chew", and i would guess that mastikha is named for that, rather than vice versa:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B...

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