Tagged: jewels

An Iron Age tomb brimming with treasures fashioned out of gold, bronze and amber was recently uncovered after lying undisturbed by the Danube River for nearly 2,600 years, archaeologists report. The glitzy hoard adorned and surrounded the skeleton of a woman who likely died between...

On January 25, 1905, a 3,106-carat diamond was discovered during a routine inspection at the Premier Mine in Pretoria, South Africa. The diamond, weighing 1.33 pounds, was named the “Cullinan” (after Sir Thomas Cullinan, who owned the mine) and became the largest diamond ever discovered....