Sometimes, a light bulb goes off, and you get the notion to sell an old Tiffany lamp. You know the kind: warmly lit, gem-colored stained glass; copper-foiled into a lampshade inspired by the wonders ...

Archaeologists in China have unearthed two 2,000-year-old smoke-absorbing bronze lamps in the country’s east Jiangxi Province, an important discovery which suggests Chinese lamp-makers were capable of ...