Incense

Steven Tagle joins Thanos Davelis to look at how climate change is impacting local communities in Greece, specifically the mastic producers on the Aegean island of Chios, who have been battered by high temperatures, unseasonable rains, and past wildfires, and break down how are they innovating to better prepare and cope for the impacts of climate change.

A 5,000-year-old fragrance from the Bronze Age has been showcased at an exhibition opened on İstiklal Avenue.

Beyoğlu Mayor Haydar Ali Yıldız attended the opening of the Ancient Fragrances Exhibition at Istiklal Art Gallery.

With the cooperation of the Şanlıurfa Archeology Museum and Fragrance Culture Association, the "Mesopotamia in the Traces of Scent" exhibition has been opened as a result of a three-year study, contributed by academics and archaeologists.

Police on Friday arrested a man for stealing around 1,000 euros, 11 silver incense burners and two silver cups from a church in Halkidiki in northern Greece. He had hidden the loot in a nearby forest.

According to police he pulled off the robbery by posing as a pilgrim, so that his movements in the church would go unnoticed.

Marijuana chemical residue has been found in incense burners apparently used during funerary rites at a mountainous site in western China in about 500 B.C., providing what may be the oldest evidence of smoking cannabis for its mind-altering properties.

It's hard to imagine that scent takes the crown as the most powerful of the five senses, while most often the other four are given credit in various narratives from arts and literature to history and travel. A recent exhibition by Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) will hopefully help restore smellscape as a distinctive space for historical and cultural debate

Greek graphic designer/tattoo artist Vasileios Katsanis created a 3D printable dragon that the public can download from MyMiniFactory. The design is for a 3D printable dragon incense stick holder. Katsanis says: