Burgas Regional History Museum will open an exhibition on 13 November 2026 on how people lit their homes in ancient times, the museum said. Titled "The Flame That Survived the Centuries", it tells the story of the clay lamp and its place in daily life along the Black Sea coast.

Visitors will see ancient ceramic lamps and parts of medieval candlesticks. Together they show how lighting changed in Bulgarian lands over time.

The ancient Greeks called the lamp a "lychnos" and the Romans a "lucerna". Lamps were in wide use in homes, public buildings, shrines and tombs.

The exhibition also shows how an ancient lamp was built: an oil reservoir, a nozzle for the wick, a decorated disc and large handles.

Some lamps have raised stamps on the base, such as the marks FORTIS and STROBILI. The museum says they show that lamps were already mass-produced in ancient times, and they point to trade routes along the Black Sea coast.

The display starts with Hellenistic lamps with a dark glaze, moves on to Roman lamps with scrolls and late antique ones with Christian symbols, and ends with medieval candlesticks. The museum pays special attention to the decoration, because it shows the beliefs and culture of each era.

The opening is at 11:00 at the Archaeological Exhibition, 21 Aleko Bogoridi Boulevard.