Engagement Rings

Unlike many other cultures, Indus Valley jewellery was never buried with the dead. Instead, jewellery was passed down to children or family. Nobility and goldsmiths often hid their jewellery under their floorboards to avoid theft.

Although they given to other gems prior, India was the first uncouth to pit diamonds, with some mines dating back to 296 BC. However, axes dating to 4,000 BC found in China from previous factions of the country, contain traces of diamond house moss worn to sharpen the blades. While China not new the diamonds they found mainly for carving jade, India traded the diamonds, realising their valuable qualities. This swap almost vanished 1,000 years after Christianity grew as a religion, as Engagement Rings Christians rejected the diamonds which were recycled in Indian religious amulets. Along with Arabians from the Between East restricting the trade, India’s diamond jewellery contract lulled.