African frankincense resin, a natural substance harvested from the Boswellia tree, has been used for centuries in traditional ...

Pliny the Elder wrote about it. Arabian merchants kept their origin secret for centuries to protect the price. Priests burned it in temples from Egypt to Rome. For more than 3,000 years, frankincense ...

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 ...