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Jewelry:

The only way that a man could enter a woman’s heart is gifting her jewelry. Women are addicted to jewelry. This has been from the very beginning, even wives of the great Pharaohs of Egypt loved to wear jewelry. Majority of women believe that, no jewelry makes a woman incomplete.

Reversible Jewelry:

This kind of jewelry is handmade with Japanese ‘chiyogami’ or washi papers. Many of the designs are based on Kimono textiles. This kind of Jewelry women prefer for parties or casual outings.

Gemstone Jewelry:

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• jewelry a pharaoh would wear

Pearls are stunning, simple, and elegant. Wearing a string of pearls conveys a distinctive classiness, along with a subtle beauty. To show a woman how much you value her beauty, consider giving her a lovely pearl necklace. Pearls truly are the ultimate fashion statement for any woman, and she will always remember your thoughtfulness.

The beauty of pearls is also found within their varieties of colors and forms. To choose the right pearls for you or a loved one, it helps to understand the four basic types that exist. Akoya, South Sea, Tahitian, and freshwater pearls are the four basic kinds. Akoya pearls come in light gold or cream colors.

South Sea pearls are a beautiful, light silver color.Tahitian pearls are typically darker in color, ranging from dark gray to black. The different colors of pearls create different lusters, it is just up to you to pick the one you think is most beautiful. In addition to different colors, pearls also come in different forms.

Have you ever seen some pearls, that are tiny, almost seed-like, and others that are very much larger? That is because they come in many different forms. Semi-baroque pearls are absolutely stunning for their oval shape and can sometimes be tear-drop shaped. Other great forms are oval or off-round shapes, which provide a nice variation from traditional round pearls.

These pearls look great in anniversary rings, perhaps for your special loved one. When strung on a necklace, off-round pearls are very classy. The different shapes can look great in all types of jewelry as well. The semi-baroque style of pearls look great in pendants or drop or stud earrings.

Various coronation crowns for kings have often featured a variation of a semi-baroque pearls studded among the other precious jewels. Round pearls and off-round pearls often look best when simply hung on a string, in order to create a bracelet or necklace. However, round pearls can also make great dangle earrings as well. Any kind of pearl shape can make for a truly stunning engagement ring or wedding ring.

Pearls offer an affordable option for people wanting something unique as a wedding ring, yet something that is at the same time less expensive. In a diamond, engagement, or anniversary ring, pearls often add an unforgettable touch. Tahitian South Sea pearls are a great example of pearls that are often combined with other pearl colors to create great pieces of jewelry. Tahitian pearls can be truly aesthetic when combined with pink, and cream colors on a string.

Pearls of the highest quality often command astronomical prices, for their luster, lack of surface markings, and size. Because pearls are stylish for an entire lifetime, you may want to make an investment in high-quality pearls for your loved one. If you do, your wife or girlfriend will never forget that gorgeous anniversary ring you picked out just for her. Pearls are some of the best ways to express your love.

The Pharaoh Hatshepsut of Egypt (1458 – 1470 BC)
was a woman who was fond of gilding her face with gold and silver dust. She was also known as “Son of the Sun” and depicted in contemporary art as a man.

The Klondike Gold Rush
began in August 1896 along the Klondike River near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. A total of 12.5 million ounces of gold have been taken from the Klondike area since its discovery.

4500 Years Ago
a gold dental bridge was made for an Egyptian Pharoah. When it was recently discovered by archeologists, its condition was good enough to be used today.

Almost All The Gold ever mined is still around today, unlike any other element on earth. Some is in museums, some in illuminated manuscripts, some buried in vaults of central banks, or in shipwrecks at the bottom of the sea, and a lot of it is in today’s jewelry.

King Solomon’s Mines
were a fabulous source of gold in Biblical times. It was thought they were in mysterious Ophir or the legendary land of Punt. But their exact location was lost for centuries. Then in l976,a Saudi American team of geologists located King Solomon’s mines in the Saudi Arabian desert in a mountainous area called “The Cradle of Gold” midway between Mecca and Medina.

The Golden Fleece, described in the classical legend of Jason and the Argonauts, was based on actual fact. The fleece was a sheepskin staked in the bottom of a gold bearing stream to trap alluvial gold in its lanolin-rich wool. Fleece was used throughout much of the ancient world as well as by 19th Century gold prospectors in the United States and Australia. Read the rest of this entry »