This article is part of our Design special section about buildings, objects and techniques that are fighting to stay alive. Though automation and mass manufacturing have brought us a world of ...

Clothing remains the most commonly thrifted item, with 71 percent of shoppers buying apparel secondhand. Home decor follows at 45 percent, with books (40 percent), home goods (39 percent), shoes (31 ...

Ceramic cones dating back 6,000 years may have been wax lamps that illuminated ancient nighttime rituals for hours.

Learn how to make your own oil lava lamp with this simple and fun DIY experiment! Explore the science behind the mesmerizing lava effect while creating a colorful, decorative project. Perfect for kids ...

For a little over two thousand years, the primary light sources after the sun had set were oil lamps and candles. This was well before the age of fossil fuels, so these oil lamps were often fueled ...

Released in 1971 and adapted from a novel by Jaroslav Havlícek, Oil Lamps opens in a cosy theatre on the very cusp of the 20th century, one affluent audience member confidently predicting that the ...

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 ...

An illustration of Wilkes-Barre policeman William T. Rhoads climbing a street lamp post at Public Square and North Main Street on Jan. 4, 1883, published in the Sunday News newspaper on Jan. 7, 1883.

A clay lamp from the Hasmonean period found at Nebi Samuel in the West Bank, in a discovery made public on December 15, 2025. (COGAT) An ancient clay oil lamp dating over 2,000 years ago has been ...

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 ...