Here are four articles we collected from over the net and posted on our main store. There articles cover several points around history of Egyptian Jewelry, making of silver jewelry and more. Please let us know if you know of more articles on the subject that we can post here.
The History of Jewelry from Egypt
History [...]
What did you do so for your Christmas 2006 shopping. Do you find yourself stressed and running out of time? Are you tired of dealing with traffic, parking, long checkout lines, and screaming kids to top it all off? If so, read on as this list will, I hope, convince you why it is easier [...]
What did you do so for your Christmas 2006 shopping. Do you find yourself stressed and running out of time? Are you tired of dealing with traffic, parking, long checkout lines, and screaming kids to top it all off? If so, read on as this list will, I hope, convince you why it is easier [...]
In 5 more hours the craziest shopping day of the year will start. Earlier today I was driving around and noticed a line forming at the doors of a major electronics retailer, that was at 9:00 PM. This was the first time for me to see such lines forming, these folks take it really seriously: [...]
We decided to publish weekly Top 5 lists on the best Egyptian gifts and jewelry from our store. Each week we will publish stats on best sellers from a particular category. We hope this list help you shop for a great Christmas gift.
number 1: Egyptian Gold Cartouche
number 2: Silver Filigree Cartouche Necklace
number 3: Eye of [...]
Before the beginning of the 1st Dynasty in 3100 BC, the Egyptians already had access to precious metals, and throughout the Dynastic Period they acquired it in ever increasing quantities, at first from the Eastern Desert and Nubia, later too as tribute and spoils of war from Syria and the north. The Egyptian craftsmen used these enormous amounts of gold in many and varied ways - to gild lesser materials, to plate wood and stone, solid casting it into small statuary, hammering and cutting sheets of it into elements of religious and ceremonial furniture and funerary equipment. However, its most widespread use was in the production of jewelry, both that worn by the living and, in particular, that made expressly for the adornment of the corpse. Egyptian funerary beliefs required that the mummified body be bedecked with the finest products of the jewelry- maker's art and, whether for amulet or collar, pectoral or diadem, the first choice of material, indeed the prescribed material accordin
