Prayer beads can be used by many religions, including Buddhists, Muslims and Christians, or anyone else looking for ways to mark off and keep track of prayers, or a meditative practice.

Blue beads unearthed in an ancient Ølby grave, south of Copenhagen, match material from Amarna in Egypt and Nippur in Mesopotamia, revealing trade routes 3,400 years ago.

Sitting on the bluff at the Giza pyramids in late afternoon, as the sky turns pink behind the great pharaonic tombs, you can hear the 5 o’clock call to prayer rise from mosques in the Nile River ...

As Rafael Alvarez takes a closer look at praying the rosary, he shares how the religious discipline – a slow, methodical meditation with prayer beads – brings him comfort, peace and insights ...

The earliest set of prayer beads known in Britain, made from the delicate bones of salmon vertebrae and recently found around the neck of a man buried more than 1,100 years ago at Lindisfarne, an ...