Labels:text | human face OCR: FASHION Symbolising purity, invincibility and of people through the good fortune, the diamond is one of ages, with references Nature's most beautiful gifts found even in the Bible. The first detailed ac- Stones that counts, however, come from Pliny, a Roman naturalist born in 23 AD. Bewitch In the Legend of the Valley of Diamonds, he reveals what was pur- ported to be the best mining technique of that Bracelet featuring cubes of sandblasted S ince they were time. The diamonds were first discovered all in one deep, inacces- yellow gold and blocks in India around sible valley guarded by of pave-set diamonds 800 BC, diamonds venomous snakes. To mine them, the locals tossed have had a special in lumps of meat to which the diamonds could ad- place in history. They here. Mountain eagles swooped down and carried have bewitched and the bait off to their nests, from where the diamonds intrigued generations were plucked. Making up this neck- As more conventional diamond-mining tech- lace are 31 carats of niques were adopted, the gem started cropping up square- cut diamo nols early in the Middle Ages, worn not as decorative set in a criss-cross jewellery but as a magical amulet. The diamond's pat tem of yellow gold great hardness, itwas commonly believed, would
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