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Walk into many a meditation or yoga studio here in Los Angeles and beyond and you’ll see a treasure-trove of malas, made from all variety of gemstones and crystals. At heart, these prayer beads are a ...

It was made in the prehistoric period, an ancient bead 15cm long, tubular and consisting of black-and-white agate and orange carnelian rock. It was broken in two and buried, separately, with two ...

The two agate beads, carved into the shapes of a waterbird and a tiger, were found in an intact cultural layer at the Lai Nghi burial site. They are now preserved in the artifact collection of the ...

Prayers beads hang waiting to be sold as Shia Muslim pilgrims arrive to take part in a religious ritual in the shrine city of Karbala, southwest of Iraq's capital Baghdad, on Jan. 2. Agate-based ...