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History Mysteries

History Mystery #2

We don’t usually look at this object from this direction, so I will give you a big clue and tell you what it is called.

This is a fanoos.

What is a fanoos?

 

Florence Nightingale is often know as ‘the lady with the lamp’, and this is the lamp.

A fanoos is a Turkish lamp that collapses down flat when not being held or hung up. It was the light that Miss Nightingale carried as she walked the 3 miles from one end of Scutari Hospital to the other.