Facts Of Diamonds Throughout History Across The World
“Diamonds are forever” claims a catchy lyric from Shirley Bassey, and she’s not lyin’. Diamonds have been around forever with the first recorded discoveries in India almost 3,000 years ago, but that means very little and it is probably something much more like 6,000 years ago that diamonds came on the scene. The most impressive idea surrounding this is that those diamonds, given and received 6,000 years ago are in theory still around today and unless they were crushed or cut by other diamonds, retain the same shape. (more…)