In this Monday, Oct. 7, 2013 photo, a gilt-brass and enamel clock-watch with alarm and calendar made by Gaultier Ferlite is seen on display in an exhibition 'The Cheapside Hoard: London's Lost Jewels' ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Experts may be one tiny step closer to unravelling the mystery of who buried hundreds of dazzling jewels under a London neighbourhood during a turbulent period in English history ...
ON A summer’s day in 1912 demolition workers broke through the wooden floor of a building in Cheapside, the main thoroughfare in the City of London, and struck gold. In the stone- and brick-lined ...
As a child growing up enamored of history, my earliest fantasy was what it would be like to find undiscovered treasure. When I was thirteen, living in the Roman city of Bath, my dream came true. My ...
In this tantalizing account, BBC documentary producer Shepherd (A History of Delusions) revisits the mystery of the Cheapside Hoard, the largest collection of Tudor and Stuart treasures ever uncovered ...
The author of ‘The Lost Jewels’ talks about a trove of hidden gems, walking tours of London and Samuel Pepys. By Susanne Fowler LONDON — “The Lost Jewels,” Kirsty Manning’s third novel, takes readers ...
nepalnepal — Diamonds may be forever, but a lot of jewelry doesn’t survive through the centuries. Rings and bracelets get broken up for re-use, pearls decay, gold is melted down. That explains the ...
That explains the excitement over a new London exhibition of the Cheapside Hoard - a trove of almost 500 gemstones and pieces of jewelry from the 16th and 17th centuries, dug up by workmen demolishing ...
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