This funerary shroud was made from thousands of multicolored beads and woven to represent a human face and a large scarab ...

Three small girls at a table string beads with deep concentration. They are taking part in a three-day jewelry workshop held at the Heliopolis branch of Diwan bookstore that started last Thursday. The ...

Bronze Age bigwigs in what’s now Denmark wore brightly colored glass beads made in the workshops of Egyptian pharaohs and Mesopotamian rulers, a new investigation finds. Trade routes connected Egypt ...

An ancient Egyptian iron bead found inside a 5,000-year-old tomb was crafted from a meteorite, new research shows. The tube-shaped piece of jewelry was first discovered in 1911 at the Gerzeh cemetery, ...

Reprinted from Beads forum: newsletter of the Society of Bead Researchers, no. 7, 1985, pages 8-9. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball ...

When it was made: Circa 664 to 525 B.C. Ancient Egyptians wove impressively detailed nets of colored beads to create funeral shrouds around 2,500 years ago. The popular bead nets were placed on top of ...