In the jungles of northern Guatemala, archaeologists brushed away centuries of soil to uncover a small altar that shouldn’t have been there. It stood no taller than a toddler, its four painted ...

The Torah informs us that the Ark (Aron-Exodus 25:11), the Table (Shulhan –Exodus 25:24) and the Altar of Incense (Mizbeiah Miktar Ketoret – Exodus 30:3) were all decorated with rims.

References to incense in the New Testament suggest its use in early Christian worship. God commanded Moses to make an “altar of incense” for worship on which the “sweetest spices and gums ...