On excavating the cistern, he was surprised to uncover a huge quantity of intact ancient oil lamps ... with the lamps, Baramki recovered stone lamp molds and a wide variety of pottery figurines ...

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 ...

The Ancient Synagogue at Ma‘on in Judah ... Excavation in Marcus Street, Ramla: Pottery, Oil Lamps and Carved Stone Vessels. Contract Archaeology Reports 2:38-99. Aviam M. and Stern E.J. 1997. Burial ...

Israeli officials recently announced the discovery of an unusual oil lamp dating to the fourth century, just in time for Hanukkah. In a Facebook post published Thursday, the Israel Antiquities ...

Researchers unearthed pottery lamps within the soil ... the Temple and city’s destruction,” she added. Intact oil lamps from the late Second Temple period. (credit: ELIYAHU YANAI, CITY ...

Some crevices contained groups of oil lamps mixed with weapons and pottery vessels from earlier ... Necromancy is the ancient practice of attempting to communicate with the dead.

Annette Nagar from the Israel Antiquities Authority shows an oil lamp tool as she stands in an ancient Byzantine church dating from 1,500 years ago discovered during an archaeological rescue ...

For the nearly two centuries since this Etruscan oil ... in the ancient Mediterranean world, leaving nothing to compare it with that might hint at how it was used. On the bottom of the lamp ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Donald Trump says he will return a set of ancient oil lamps to the Israel Antiquities Authority. “These historic items were presented by a representative of the Israeli ...