Roman ‘factory town’ for oil lamps found - Discovery.com- msnbc.com: "Italian researchers have discovered the pottery center where the oil lamps that lighted the ancient Roman Empire were made.
Evidence of the pottery workshops emerged in Modena, in central-northern Italy, during construction work to build a residential complex near the ancient walls of the city.
'We found a large ancient Roman dumping filled with pottery scraps. There were vases, bottles, bricks, but most of all, hundreds of oil lamps, each bearing their maker's name,' Donato Labate, the archaeologist in charge of the dig, told Discovery News."
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