Egyptian jewelry goes back through the ages to around 4000 BC during the period of the Badarians in Upper Egypt. From antique jewelry you can appreciate the importance placed by Egyptians on sacred objects like the scarab beetles which signified rebirth. Both the sexes wore jewelry for adornment, status or simply to ward off evil. Gold, copper, silver and their alloys, glass, precious stones, lapis lazuli, quartz and malachite were all extensively used by the ancient Egyptians in their bracelets, clasps, brooches, earrings and necklaces.
Today’s shops have used the ancient designs in excellent copies of antique jewelry. You can therefore order an attractive necklace in gilded sterling silver and garnet, red being the color symbolic of life. The fragrant blue lotus loved by the ancient Egyptian is crafted in a set of onyx earrings reminiscent of Nefertum the god of perfume and a locket symbolic of a predynastic figure is beautifully carved in sterling silver.
Today’s shops have used the ancient designs in excellent copies of antique jewelry. You can therefore order an attractive necklace in gilded sterling silver and garnet, red being the color symbolic of life. The fragrant blue lotus loved by the ancient Egyptian is crafted in a set of onyx earrings reminiscent of Nefertum the god of perfume and a locket symbolic of a predynastic figure is beautifully carved in sterling silver.
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