There’s far more to bell-ringing than knowing the ropes. There’s individual style married with religious intent. John Cox, with Saint Spiridon Orthodox Cathedral, says there’s a bell-ringer in ...

A 2,600-year-old Chinese tomb and its bronze bells reveal how a Zhou ruler used ancestral rituals to navigate political power ...

VAIL ” Philadelphia has the Liberty Bell. Newport, Ky. has the World Peace Bell. Bells decorate Ford Park in Vail this summer. And on Wednesday, your home could have a new bronze bell, too. The Vail ...

The sound of bells marks the passage of time and summons worshippers to church in many German villages, a reminder of a centuries-old tradition made possible by bell artisans. Some of those bells ...

Musical bronze bells held an important place during the Chinese Bronze Age, which spanned from the Xia to Zhou dynasties (circa 2100 BC-221 BC). Suspended on a sturdy wooden rack in the order of ...

JOANETES, Spain — Xavier Pallàs plants his feet on the belfry floor, grips the rope, and with one tug fills the lush Spanish valley below with the reverberating peal of a church bell. Clang-clong!

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. +++ON HOLD++++ Sitting in a chair with ropes looped around both feet and hands, Joan Carles Osuna, a student of the Vall d'en Bas ...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame would be jumping for joy at the news. Nine new enormous bronze bells have arrived at the Paris cathedral to replace the old ones that had been discordant for decades, and ...

If you've visited Buddhist temples in Japan, chances are you passed through their entry gates and continued straight to their venerable main halls. Perhaps you admired the architecture, gazed upon ...

This is the music that was played at the ceremony marking Britain's handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China in 1997. The choice of music on each side had some very interesting aspects.