The oil: Judah Makabee ordered the Temple to be purified, and a new altar to be built in place of the one polluted by pig’s ...

This terracotta lamp decorated with two fishes and a horse would have been used by the ancient Romans for artificial light; it would have been fuelled by olive oil and could easily be carried from ...

The next step in advance was the invention in 1774 by the Abbe Matherot de Perigny of an oil lamp with a silvered reflector. The way in which this reflector distributed the light led some to think ...

very similar to a much earlier Roman oil lamp. The hook on the side of the lamp was used to put it onto a jacket, hat or piece of wood underground. It would not have provided much light to miners ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Donald Trump says he will return a set of ancient oil lamps to the Israel Antiquities ... JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century.