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.
He planned to refine it into kerosene, for lamps - a substitute for increasingly ... the British Treasury bought a majority stake in the Anglo-Persian oil company - the ancestor of BP.
It is written from right to left like Arabic and Persian and in the same script ... The reading of the poems starts with the youngest or the least known poet. An oil lamp or lighted candle is placed ...
Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)Reuters/West Asia News Agency Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) seized a foreign oil tanker carrying more than 700,000 liters of ...
We don't want propane refrigerators, kerosene lamps, or composting toilets ... Instability where most oil is found, from the Persian Gulf to Nigeria to Venezuela, makes this lifeline fragile.
The IRGC Navy in the 3rd Naval District in the Persian Gulf said its forces seized a ship named ... Preliminary estimates indicated that the ship was carrying at least 700,000 liters of smuggled oil, ...
Mercer also incorporated Persian, Chinese Spanish and Dutch tiles. The interior walls, floors and ceilings are adorned with ...
This terracotta lamp decorated with two fishes and a horse would have been used by the ancient Romans for artificial light; it would have been fuelled by olive oil and could easily be carried from ...
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) seized a foreign oil tanker carrying more than 700,000 liters of smuggled fuel north of the Persian Gulf, its official news outlet Sepah News reported ...