The Yemeni island of Socotra was largely unspoiled, its few guests arriving to trade for aromatic frankincense. Now it is ...

Known for their mushroom-shaped canopies and the blood-red sap that courses through their wood, ... Frankincense and bottle trees grow on the Yemeni island of Socotra on Sept. 21, 2024.

Known for their mushroom-shaped canopies and the blood-red sap that courses through their wood, the trees once stood in great numbers. On a windswept plateau high above the Arabian Sea, Sena ...

Known in local vernacular as "Luban," frankincense is a solid, gum-like material that comes from the Boswellia tree, while its extracted oil is used in a wide variety of cosmetics including soaps, ...

To collect frankincense, harvesters make incisions into the trunks and scrape out the oozing sap, which hardens into frankincense resin. According to DeCarlo, the trees should be cut no more than ...

This sap is then scraped away so a second sap forms, which later dries and crystallises. In previous counts, there were only 1,200 ancient perennial trees in Wadi Dawkah.

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 ...

This sap is then scraped away so a second sap forms, which later dries and crystallises. In previous counts, there were only 1,200 ancient perennial trees in Wadi Dawkah. To increase numbers and ...

The smell of frankincense – a hard-to-pin-down, piquant-woody aroma – wafts around the maze-like lanes of the centuries-old Muttrah Souk in Muscat.In every other store, terracotta pots are ...

Known to some as the “king of oils,” frankincense comes from the sap of trees in the Boswellia genus, like the Boswellia sacra tree. These trees are in Middle Eastern countries, such as Oman ...

To date, he’s planted 1,000 trees. Frankincense sap ready for harvest in North Tapanuli. Image by Barita News Lumbanbatu. Becoming a leader. One day in 2020, ...

All across Dhofar, there are these abandoned port towns and cities that traded frankincense in ancient, medieval and modern times. In 2000, Dhofar, the frankincense trees of Wadi Dawkah Reserve ...