A high school student on a hike in southern Israel recently discovered a 1,600-year-old oil lamp, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Wednesday. Yonatan Frankel, 16, from Hod Hasharon, made the find ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Israeli officials recently announced the discovery of an unusual oil lamp dating to the fourth century, just in time for Hanukkah. In a Facebook post published Thursday, the Israel Antiquities ...

One of the largest ancient oil-lamp workshops in Israel has been recently uncovered by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) in excavations in Beit Shemesh. Hundreds of ceramic oil lamps from around ...

Archaeologists excavating in a Roman cemetery in the Netherlands have uncovered a unique oil lamp dating to the second ...

Archaeologists have discovered a rare oil lamp, shaped like a grotesque face cut in half, at the foundation of a building erected in Jerusalem’s City of David shortly after the destruction of the ...

Archaeologists have rediscovered an ancient Roman ceramic workshop in Israel more than eight decades after first finding in in 1934, because its original location had been lost over time and the ...

In an announcement from the Northumberland National Park, officials said in late October that a record number of finds were made at Bremenium Fort in England.