A listing in the Guinness Book of World Records was followed by a years-long battle over ownership of the Ophir Collection. It’s possible there’s a curse attached to the Ophir Collection, a trove of ...
A 55.22-carat ruby has become both the largest and most valuable gem of its kind ever to sell at auction, netting $34.8 million on Thursday. The stone went under the hammer in New York in June, less ...
On a site on Carlisle in Cumbria, England, that once held a high-status Roman bathhouse, archaeologists have unearthed 34 gems, variously cut from amethyst, jasper, and cornelian, and dating back to ...