KYOTO—Kanbe Juzu Ten, a long-established manufacturer and wholesaler of Buddhist prayer beads in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, has begun offering “genderless beads” that can be used by both men and women. At ...

At a 5,000-year-old tomb in Spain, researchers found what is likely the largest known collection of beads ever discovered at a burial site Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Researchers estimate the ...

Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, 2-39-1 Kurokami, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan ...

More than a quarter million beads found in a tomb with female skeletons were used to decorate the women's ceremonial dresses, suggesting they were powerful leaders five millennia ago.