For the nearly two centuries since this Etruscan oil lamp was found near the city of Cortona, Italy, it has confounded scholars. It was unearthed in a ditch, so its original context is unknown. And ...

Chimneys and stove pipes were were frequently deemed sources of building fires. A faulty stove pipe caused a fire at Murphy’s ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. [1] The Hauge family began collecting ...

The Civil Administration said the artifacts add to a growing corpus of Second Temple–era material recovered in recent years across the West Bank. A rare clay oil lamp from the Hasmonean era was ...

WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY: Good afternoon and happy Thursday, readers! The government is back in action after the longest government shutdown, with federal employees now heading back to work. In today’s ...

Some 110 million U.S. households use a range–or cooktop and oven–for cooking. About two-thirds of those are powered by electricity, while one-third use natural gas or other fuels. But of the ...

Ayodhya's Deepotsav achieved a remarkable feat, securing two Guinness World Records. Over 2,100 individuals simultaneously rotated diyas, while an astounding 2.6 million oil-lit lamps illuminated the ...

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A record 2.6 million lamps were lit in the northern Indian temple town of Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, on Sunday ahead of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. Thousands of volunteers lit oil lamps along ...