The history of the earliest Egyptian jewelry can be traced back to around 4500 BC in the region of El-Badari. Counts of varieties found as museum jewelry confirm the progress of the finest traditions in the craft of jewelry through the period of the Pharaohs, the Greco-Roman era, and others, corresponding to 3000 years of successive dynasties.

Historical jewelry of Egypt reflected the powerful religious sentiments of the ancient Egyptians, whose carvings on jewels had motifs of beetles, signifying rebirth and other symbols suggestive of religious origins. As is well known, ancient Egyptians had a strong belief in after life. Pharaohs were therefore invariably buried with their earthly possessions including their personal jewelry. Museum jewelry reveals the use of bronze, ornaments made of an alloy of silver and gold with traces of copper, precious gems and surprisingly enough, glass. This was possibly because gems were more difficult to work on. Evidence is also found of the use of enamels in very rich and bright colors besides precious stones like quartz and lapis lazuli.

Museum jewelry of ancient Egypt is in the form of earrings, crowns, brooches and girdles. Daily use household articles made of bejeweled gold were also buried along with mummified kings and their queens. Today’s online sites market exquisite jewelry patterned after Egyptian jewelry articles. You can buy a garnet sterling silver necklace gilded over with gold in 22 carat or a bracelet in silver with scarabs. Some of these go back to the times of Nefertiti, Cleopatra and Tutankhamun. There are replicas of Ankh pendants and Thebes’s crown jewels going back to 3000 BC. There is a very attractive royal necklace with a gold plated chain.

There is another beautiful amulet in sterling silver suggestive of a figure in celebration that’s also a fertility sign. Then there are the famous Ankh pendants in sterling silver and Ankh earrings also in sterling silver with a 22 carat gold gild. You can order an Egyptian Dashur necklace going back to the Middle Kingdom or an exotic Egyptian charm bracelet.

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