Detail of the threaded beads on attire UE 344 next to the bones of Individual 343 Credit: David W. Wheatley In the southwest of Spain, at the Montelirio tholos burial site (built between 2900 and 2800 ...
From the Roman empress Cleopatra to the celebrated actress Audrey Hepburn, beaded jewellery has always maintained its unvarying desirability. Anybody scavenging ancient history books would find that ...