Lunar New Year falls on Wednesday, January 29, this year, and that gives you just enough time to gather vessels for your most striking altar yet. Kate Berry, Domino’s editor at large, arranges ...

Think for a moment how powerful the sense of smell is, how fragrance penetrates boundaries and how burning incense creates a cloud-like aura. Now consider why the incense altar appears to be out ...

The incense that burned on this altar has always attracted special interest for its unusual life-giving properties that we see later in the Torah (Bamidbar 17:11-13).

Yet once a year a kippurim ritual is performed by putting blood on the horns of this altar where no animal sacrifice occurs and only incense is burnt. Quick!

Certain inscriptions from this vicinity showed that Aphrodite, “the unconquerable,” sender of Spring, was worshipped, and that an ancient incense-altar had existed there.

The Israel Antiquities Authority said Thursday the discovery of the 2,000-year-old incense altar, along with the nature of the graves, shows the cemetery was pagan.

The Israel Antiquities Authority said Thursday the discovery of the 2,000-year-old incense altar, along with the nature of the graves, shows the cemetery was pagan.

An article about two altar boys being arrested for putting marijuana in a censer (incense burner) at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain was recirculated on social media in December ...

Aztec Altar Secretly Built After the Spanish Conquest Discovered in Mexico City Researchers found incense burners, a vessel containing cremated remains and other artifacts in the former capital of ...

Israeli archaeologists found a mixture of cannabis and animal dung in the residue found on a 2,700-year-old altar. JERUSALEM (JTA) — The ancient Israelites burned cannabis on their altars during ...