Did ancient Egyptians prize meteorites so much that they turned them into jewelry? A new study of a 5,000-year-old iron bead hints that the rocky fragments that fell from the sky may have held a ...

Beaded necklaces are quite popular amongst ancient Egyptian jewelry and differ from cartouche necklaces in many ways. They were always made with different amulets integrated into them, and the beads ...

Ancient Egyptian beads found in a 5,000-year-old tomb were made from iron meteorites that fell to Earth from space, according to a new study. The beads, which are the oldest known iron artifacts ...

Rehren and a team of archaeologists have been studying Egyptian jewelry first uncovered from a grave in 1911–specifically, a set of beads from around 3,200 B.C.

The ancient Egyptians wore jewelry made from space rock, and meteors raining from the sky may have shaped their ideas of the gods, according to new analysis of a 5,000-year-old iron bead. The iron ...

The brilliant beads of 'Cleopatra's necklace': Ancient Egyptian jewellery plucked from burial mound of Siberian 'virgin princess' Glass necklace discovered inside 2,400-year-old burial mound ...

Similarly, an amethyst beaded necklace from ancient Rome estimated to be from 1st century B.C. to 1st century A.D. is expected to fetch $6,000 to $8,000, far below the cost of a trendy 10-motif ...

Finally, the fourth necklace was designed with several strings of faience beads, which were knotted together at both ends with a ring. The 5.7-foot-long (1.75 meters) coffin was carved out of a ...

Perhaps the most pervasive period of Egyptian influence in art, fashion and jewelry came about in the 1920s, when the rise of Art Deco coincided with the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922 ...