11 Facts About Jewellery

Jewellery is one of the oldest types of archaeological artefact – with 100, 000-year-old beads made from Nassarius shells thought to be the oldest known jewellery.

Jewellery has been made to adorn nearly every body part, from hairpins to toe rings, and even genital jewellery.

Jewellery of the Berber cultures is a style of traditional jewellery worn by women and girls in the rural areas of the Maghreb region in North Africa inhabited by indigenous Berber people.

Jewellery dating from 600 to 475 BC is not well represented in the archaeological record, but after the Persian wars the quantity of jewellery again became more plentiful.

Jewellery had great status with India's royalty; it was so powerful that they established laws, limiting wearing of jewellery to royalty.

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Jewellery was considered as a divine being, a deity in human form, whose duty was to uphold and protect dharma, the moral order of the universe.

Jewellery is worn on the arms and hands, ears, neck, hair, head, feet, toes and waist to bless the bride with prosperity.

Jewellery played a major role in the fate of the Americas when the Spanish established an empire to seize South American gold.

Jewellery making developed in the Americas 5, 000 years ago in Central and South America.

Jewellery making in the Pacific started later than in other areas because of recent human settlement.

Jewellery used in body modification can be simple and plain or dramatic and extreme.