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 ...

On excavating the cistern, he was surprised to uncover a huge quantity of intact ancient oil lamps bearing animal and plant motifs and geometric designs. The lamps were dated to the Late Roman ...

The lamp Yonatan found is identical to one discovered in the same place 90 years ago by the late Reform rabbi and archaeologist Dr. Nelson Glueck. A lamp that lit up the nights for Roman soldiers ...

A total of 48 ancient oil lamps dating back to the Roman era were unearthed during ongoing excavations in southeastern Turkey. The 1,700-year-old oil lamps were found in Zerzevan Castle ...

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.

A research team at the University of Bar-Ilan published a paper that said these relics, dating back to the 2nd to 4th centuries of the Roman era ... more than 120 oil lamps, three human skulls ...

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 ...