On a starlit night long ago, as the story goes, three wise men brought gifts to baby Jesus in a stable. One was gold, the others frankincense and myrrh. Frankincense, like myrrh, was highly ...

Mention frankincense, and it’s hard not to instantaneously think of Christmas. Cited in the story of the birth of Christ in the Bible’s Book of Matthew, it was one of the precious gifts (alongside ...

A Christmas tradition that can be traced back to the story of Jesus's birth in Bethlehem is the exchange of gifts. The Bible records that wise men took him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Gold ...

ON THE FRANKINCENSE COAST OF OMAN—As a child, I dutifully sang the lyrics to “We Three Kings” every holiday season. For anyone lacking a proper parochial school upbringing, these biblical Magi, guided ...

Ilan Ben Zion is an AFP reporter and a former news editor at The Times of Israel. AP — An Israeli farmer has cashed in by making exotic honey from a rare tree that produces frankincense, the resin ...

Used for millennia as a perfume and panacea, frankincense was once prized more than gold. Wisps of frankincense smoke wafted through the bazaar as I plunged through the crowded, labyrinthine ...

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