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 ...

eBay brought me such things as this vintage Tarogo frog made from Ichiban rice paper that I passed up in a thrift store in Maine and thought about for months before it surfaced on the secondhand ...

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 ...

More than a billion people in India celebrated the Hindu festival of Diwali on Monday as a state government secured the much-coveted record for lighting the largest number of oil lamps. Every autumn, ...

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 ...

The Repurpose Used Cooking Oil (RUCO) initiative launched by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to collect used oil from food manufacturers and convert it into biofuel has gained ...

Playwright Patrick Hamilton introduces unease early in “Gaslight,” his 1938 melodramatic thriller about a marriage rooted in greed, manipulation and betrayal in a competent revival running through Nov ...

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A magnificent agricultural estate, active between the 4th and 7th centuries CE, has recently been uncovered in Kafr Qasim, central Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced on Tuesday.

To say Stephen Sondheim was prolific would be an understatement. The award-winning composer/lyricist — who died four years ago at age 91 — created 16 musicals and wrote lyrics for four others. He also ...