Intricately designed 1,700-year-old artifact was discovered intact near the Mount of Olives, will go on display in Jerusalem The post Rare oil lamp with Temple menorah found from time when Romans ...

Matthew 25, the parable of the oil lamps and the ten virgins. "It was the five virgins who lived happily every after who had a cheap and ready supply of this much maligned fossil fuel." ...

Hundreds of ceramic oil lamps – two bearing symbols of the menorah – and stone lamp molds for their production, were found along with terracotta figurines.