Monday, September 22, 2008

Ancient Sumeria to Pre-Columbian America: The Sparkling History of Jewelry


There has been a sparkling history of jewelry in the ancient civilizations from ancient Sumeria to Pre-Columbian America, which made use of precious gems, gemstones and metals to adorn royalty and to symbolize influence and power in the recorded history. Egyptian and Sumerian craftsmen were making producing jewelry design set with carnelian, lapis lazuli, amethyst, garnet and turquoise. Agate was very popular with Romans who used various colored layers to create beautiful cameos. The colored pebbles on beaches and in streambeds initially attracted the human imagination. With the evolution of civilizations, greater varieties of jewelry became available through trading and mining. Royal Egyptian and Sumerian jewelry are the oldest artifacts of jewelry in the human history, dating back to 3rd millennium BC.

By searching the internet you can easily find museum reproductions of a wide range of Pre Columbian jewelry or antique jewelry. An extensive online antique jewelry glossary will offer you pre-columbian jewelry, precious stone, precious opal and precious metals. You will look beautiful when you wear antique jewelry. The pre Columbian jewelry is both haunting and daunting with incredible air of mystery.

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