Antique oil lamp identification can be a bit tricky, considering there are many reproduction antique lamps on the market. The thing is, a genuine antique oil lamp can sometimes be quite valuable, so ...

Few people stayed up at night in the years before 1800 because there were so few sources of light. An open fire, a candle or a rush dipped in oil could be lit. Then whale-oil lamps became popular.

There's no shortage of portable lighting options out there for campers or people living in developing countries, but they all have their own pros and cons. The Lumir K lamp is aiming to be the right ...

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 ...

Wilkes-Barre policeman William T. Rhoads had an interesting assignment while walking the beat around Public Square and the first block of North Main Street the week of Jan. 4, 1883.

Many 18th-century lamps used oil to produce light. If whale oil was not available, the lamps could use olive oil. The oil was kept in a reservoir, usually metal, that had three or four burners with ...

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 ...

An oil lamp is a friend of the family and a companion over the generations. It is not known exactly when the first oil lamp was made, but indications are that ancient Iraqis were the first to think of ...

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 ...