Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1918 — Ancient Lamps. [ARTICLE]

Ancient Lamps.

The candle Is in appearance a primitive affair, yet there is little doubt that its predecessor was the lamp. Those old Egyptian tombs, which have unlocked many mysteries, held lamps, and through them evidence of ancient burial customs. Lamps played apart In the solemn feasts of the Egyptians, who on such occasions placed them before their houses, burning them throughout the night. Herodotus, in one' of his numerous references. to Xerxes, alludes to the hour of lamp lighting, and evidences abound regarding the use of lamps among the ancient Greeks. Lamps, Indeed, are pictured upowrsome of their oldest vases, indicating the symbolic significance »hiefi attached to them. *