Italian researchers have discovered the pottery center where the oil lamps that lighted the ancient Roman Empire were made. Evidence of the pottery workshops emerged in Modena, in central-northern ...

Before the first patented lightbulb in 1879, oil lamps were the main source of light for people throughout the ages. The first manufactured pottery oil lamps appeared in the Chalcolithic Age ...

One of the largest ancient oil-lamp workshops in Israel has been recently uncovered by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) in excavations in Beit Shemesh. Hundreds of ceramic oil lamps from around ...

Pocklington District Heritage Trust has added to its artefact handling collection with a replica Roman amphora and two oil lamps, crafted by Fangfoss Pottery. Did you know with a Digital Subscription ...

Cosponsored by the Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, and the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Ars Orientalis is a peer-reviewed annual volume of scholarly ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Buff-colored, handle extended from ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. People living in ancient Israel used olive oil about 8,000 years ago, according to a chemical ...

Dec. 14 (UPI) --An ancient ceramic oil-lamp workshop, one of the largest of its kind, has been unearthed in Beit Shemesh, a city located west of Jerusalem in Israel. Several Islamic-era artifacts from ...