What You Should Know About Egyptian Jewelry

Egyptians are masters of ornamenting metals by engraving, soldering and fashioning them into beautiful masterpieces As far as the history of Egyptian jewelry is concerned, The history of Egyptian jewelry runs back to the 4th millennia BC, an era famous for galant pharoic golden age. Glyptic art, meaning ancient Egyptian gem carving art was very popular back in the day and was important in the role off showing power, glory and possessions. Maybe it is the abundance of precious gems that made them divert to polychrome glass jewelery?

Egyptian jewelery centers on color the most. It issues a creative eye to put all the glamorous colors together in order to produce a good piece of Egyptian jewellery. Red symbolizes life, hence power; green is said to symbolize fertility and blue is the color of joy. In ancient times Egyptian jewelery were also used with the intention of having religious significance used for special occasions such as mummification. Although a part of life in the traditional stories we know, Egyptian jewelry bears evidence for style, class and glamor in today's age.

Types of Egyptian jewelery vary from vintage dangle bead necklaces, coral pins and chunky glass bracelets to ankh cross rings, gothic pewter pendants and silver thumb pharaoh rings. Although precious stones are not attached to these jewelry giving it value for rarity, the high price tags attached to Egyptian jewelry speaks of their value in modern days. A half an inch thick silver pharaoh ring would cost about $10 and a vintage glass bead necklace can cost up to $130 or more.

Early craftsmen used lots of gold in their works, but today, with the prices of precious metals rising, jewelers look for cheaper alternatives such as copper, brass and so on. Amethysts, garnets, opals, topazes and quartz are some of the gems commonly used in Egyptian jewelry. Bracelets, arm bands and head-ornaments play essential role in the Egyptian feeling. There are a mixture of thick and thin arm bands- plain or planted with jewels, grand or simple, fancy or plain. The head graces from hair clips to head bands are surprisingly fascinating. They add goodwill and aplomb to a female when united with a Cleopatra- type silk white dress.

More over, great thick thrilling rings plays real Egyptian royal line. They are oftentimes inscribed with a face of a pharaoh wanted Ramses III usually and the band is styled with Egyptian lettering, pictures of crowns, animals and ancient symbols. Some think Egyptian jewelery as marks of luck and others wear it to show class the richer you are more excessive the Egyptian jewelry you put on.

Lee enjoys writing about and wearing jewelry such as a Juicy Couture charm bracelet and red crystal earrings. How about you?