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 ...

An Antiques Roadshow guest was left stunned when he found out his inherited 19th-century gambling wheel was worth a small ...

Maria Herrick Bray lived a life of influence through the second half of the 19th century and opening decades of the 20th, a ...

The 19th century was a period of rapid technological change, and huge shifts in scientific understanding. As medical knowledge increased, the prospect of surgery was no longer a likely death sentence, ...

Millions of Indians marked Diwali on Wednesday by lighting a record-breaking 2.51 million oil lamps in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. The display commemorated the beginning of India's biggest Hindu festival.

Industrial design took off in the mid-century modern era shortly after World War II — think of Charles and Ray Eames, Isamu ...

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Millions of Indians began celebrating the annual Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, by symbolically lighting a record 2.51 million clay oil lamps at dusk on Wednesday on the ...

Several decades ago, a national park was declared for some fifty square miles surrounding Troy and UNESCO declared it a World ...

For the first time in more than 90 years, a previously unknown waltz by a renowned 19th-century composer has been uncovered. Earlier this year, Robinson McClellan, a curator at The Morgan Library ...

The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy ... These companies focused as much on cod liver oil, toothpaste, citric acid ...

Mr. Olson poured the rye out into a cheesecloth-lined sieve. After a century and a half in the water, all of it smelled “profoundly bad,” Mr. Munger said. But blackened, mushy grain commingled ...