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Ancient oil lamp haul found near Beit Shemesh digs up solution to modern mystery Site of workshop from 1,600-1,700 years ago, in 1 of the 10 principal cities under Hasmonean rule, was discovered and ...

A rare oil lamp, believed by archeologists to have been intended by ancients to bring good fortune, was uncovered in a recent excavation in Jerusalem at the City of David National Park. The lamp was ...

Terracotta lamp from Anatolia with curled-up sleeping dog in high-relief (1st-4th c. CE) (all images courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and all featured in ‘Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul ...

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, located in ...

Dec. 14 (UPI) --An ancient ceramic oil-lamp workshop, one of the largest of its kind, has been unearthed in Beit Shemesh, a city located west of Jerusalem in Israel. Several Islamic-era artifacts from ...

Recent excavations at Shiḥin, near ancient Ẓippori (Sepphoris) in Lower Galilee (Isarel), have revealed evidence of a Roman-period ceramic oil-lamp production workshop. The findings include a pottery ...

A lamp adorned with an 8-branch menorah exposed in the excavations while preparing the trail. Students who participated in preparing a new archaeological hiking trail discovered a 1,400-year-old oil ...

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 ...

Jason Rosenthal gets excited when he thinks about the people who walked the floors of his 125-year-old restored Evanston home before him. When Rosenthal possibly became the first person to touch an ...

For a time, the lamps were also stored at the house of Saul Fox, the prominent Jewish Trump donor who gave Trump the lamps. WASHINGTON (JTA) — Donald Trump says he will return a set of ancient oil ...

Classified documents may not be the only prized items to have been placed in storage at Donald Trump’s home and private membership club in Palm Beach, Fla. Ancient ceramic oil lamps belonging to the ...