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 ...

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.

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 ...