People have used frankincense for thousands of years. Some people like the smell in perfume or incense, and there's some evidence it has medicinal benefits. (Photo Credit: iStock/Getty Images) ...

Some research suggests that frankincense oil has anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties. However, more research is necessary to learn the short- and long-term effects. Known to some as the “king ...

Historical patterns of herb use, their medicinal applications, and their impact on society can be fascinating and informative. Frankincense and myrrh are part of the Christmas tradition, but they have ...

Frankincense is a resin with a history in traditional medicine. It’s sometimes used to help manage arthritis, asthma, and other health conditions. But don’t believe everything you read on the ...

The Gospel of Matthew never details how many Magi came from "the East," but it makes it clear they traveled to pay homage to "the newborn king of the Jews" and "offered him gifts of gold, frankincense ...

Frankincense and myrrh weren’t just pretty-smelling gifts—they were among the most valuable substances in the ancient world, harvested from Arabian trees and shipped across the Roman Empire by the ton ...

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 ...

As trees go, Boswellia sacra is no beauty. It’s low, knobby, and gnarled, like Harry Potter’s Whomping Willow mixed with a baobab, a bonsai, or something out of Dr. Seuss. The environment in which it ...

The gift given by the wise men to the baby Jesus probably came across the deserts from Oman. The BBC's Jeremy Howell visits the country to ask whether a commodity that was once worth its weight in ...

Ali al-Brami knows these trees as if they were his children. He has been coming to Wadi Dawkah park in the desert north of Salalah, a city in the south of Oman, since he was a boy, learning from his ...