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A wide variety of jewelry types were produced in the Hellenistic period-earrings, necklaces, pendants, pins, bracelets, armbands, thigh bands, finger rings, wreaths, diadems, and other elaborate hair ornaments.
The ancient people wore jewelry made of feathers, bones, shells, and colored pebbles. These colored pebbles were gems and gems have been admired for their beauty and durability and made into adornments.
Among the most ancient examples of jewelry are those found in Queen Pu-abi’s tomb at Ur in Sumer (now called Tall al-Muqayyar), dating from the 3rd millennium bce.
Ancient Egyptian jewelry, backed by robust economic practices and trade networks, exemplified their advanced societal structures and reverence for material and symbolic artistry. Ancient Egyptian jewelry remains a powerful symbol of the civilization’s artistic ingenuity and spiritual depth.
The jewelry produced by the Sumerians consisted of sheet gold cut into earrings, complicated gold chains and necklaces and even stone-inlaid finger rings. From Mesopotamia, the techniques spread west to present-day Turkey where excavations have revealed fine gold jewelry at Troy that has been dated to 2500-2300BC.
Much of the jewelry in Ancient Greece, the Hellenistic Period specifically (c. 323 BCE–31 BCE), was made of gold. Gold was used before but became especially popular after Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Persian Empire which resulted in more intense trade in this stock in the Hellenistic world.
Modern jewelry, such as that designed by early 20th-century artists, introduced nonprecious metals such as steel. Jewelry, objects of personal adornment prized for the craftsmanship going into their creation and for the value of their components as well.
From ornate necklaces worn by the rich and powerful to amber amulets used to ward off disease, ancient humans crafted jewelry for a host of different reasons.
The perpetuation of iconographic and chromatic principles gave the jewelry of ancient Egypt—which long remained unchanged in spite of contact with other civilizations—a magnificent, solid homogeneity, infused and enriched by magical religious beliefs.
Archeological discoveries of Ancient Greek jewelry, from all over Greece and the Greek islands, are a huge source of inspiration for Greek jewellery designers and craftsmen of today, who, along with the modern techniques, often incorporate ancient ones too.