Hundreds of ceramic oil ... open to the public. This find yields important new information on Jewish and early Christian life during the Late Roman period, they said. The discovery of the lamps ...

The British Museum has added a Roman-era oil lamp depicting a scene of lesbian sex and other LGBTQ+ cultural objects to its permanent exhibition. The museum, which is currently closed due the ...

The wick was lit and would burn, using the oil to stay alight, very similar to a much earlier Roman oil lamp ... of light available. As the lamp had an open flame, it could only be used in ...

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 ...

One of the largest ancient oil-lamp workshops ... of stone lamp molds and a wide variety of pottery figurines depicting animals, horse-riders, women, and birds from the Late Roman period.

During the late first century A.D., residents of Jerusalem buried a small bronze oil lamp shaped like half of a grotesque face in the foundations of a Roman building. As Yori Yalon reports for ...

Pocklington District Heritage Trust has added to its artefact handling collection with a replica Roman amphora and two oil lamps, crafted by Fangfoss Pottery. The trust takes its 'Travelling ...