History of Jewelry: Do You Know Why Do We Wear Jewelry?

Since ancient times even during the age of the caveman, we have been decorating ourselves with different items. Bones of animals, teeth of predators, feathers of flying creatures, and shells from the ocean.

History of Jewelry

The history of human civilization of having different types of jewelry to be placed on us, as decorative, or even to symbolize wealth and power is simply amazing. Humans have been wearing jewelry for as long as 75,000 years, the time when our ancestors are still living in the caves.

Although most people nowadays don’t use the bones and teeth of animals as decoration. Precious metals and rare gems such as gold and diamond have a longer history than you can ever think of.

The beauty of nature has been with us the human civilization for thousands of years.

Historical exploration in Rome and Egypt has discovered thousands of precious artifacts crafted so precisely into some of the most amazing Jewelry you can ever feast your eyes on.

Before the modern-day that you currently know and love. Jewelry was worn as a symbol of wealth and power by pharaohs, kings, and emperors.

Commoners like ourselves don’t have the luxury of wearing any form of Jewelry and precious metals such as gold and silver are reserved for royalties.

Jewelry has become a way of displaying wealth and power.

Times have changed over the thousands of years.

Today, not only royalties, but commoners like us are able to afford and allowed to wear Jewelry. Types of Jewelry we wear have not changed too much from the recent thousands of years, but have the reasons for wearing them changed? Or even evolved?

Let’s take a look at our next article.

Do you know why do we wear jewelry?

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