Buried in more than 270,000 beads, grave reveals women’s power 5,000 years ago
Women buried in a lavish grave 5,000 years ago wore beaded garments, suggesting they held positions of power. The beads could ...
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Mother of Pearl
Mother-of-pearl is the hard ... furnishas the finest pearls as well as mo-ther-ot-pearl: it is found round the coasts of Ceylon, near Ormus, in the Persian Gulf, at Cape Comorin, and in some ...