BEIJING (AP) — Firecrackers popped, incense was offered at temples and dancers and drummers paraded Wednesday in Asia and farther afield as millions around the world celebrated the Lunar New Year.

Ancient Chinese made ... Unfortunately, the art of incense making and the culture it fostered have now been lost，with the burning joss sticks in temples the only reminder of the past.

Her fragrant sticks are made by one of just a handful of traditional Japanese incense producers in Kyoto, which supplies Buddhist temples ... burning incense at the ancient Greek Orthodox ...

AMMAN — Pella, an ancient site located ... from several square stands, a model shrine with bulls-head protomes [protome- a type of adornment that takes the shape of the head or upper torso of a human ...

Yemen’s glorious past stands in poignant contrast ... secular or religious rituals in temples, for medicinal purposes and as perfume.” Ancient incense burners are part of the exhibition ...

and the elements took their toll on the temple walls. The excavators found evidence of bird droppings, incense grease, soot from oil lamps, and more, caking the ancient inscriptions, Victoria ...

On the Temple of Theseus, he said: "A temple to the Ancient Greek hero Theseus on a Midlands hillside? Yes - and no. This is a folly that stands on the south slope of Wychbury Hill near Hagley in ...