Cartier was the most prolific designer of Egyptian Revival jewelry, a style it started with around 1910 and continued up until World War II, and those designs remain coveted on the secondary market.

It also marks a turning point in jewelry design. Carter’s findings directly inspired the Art Deco Egyptian Revival, a period of bold and singular designs fusing the geometric Art Deco lines and ...

This is reflected in everything we do, from crafts to jewelry.” The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 brought a resurgence of Egyptian style. Suddenly, motifs that included sphinxes, pyramids ...

The then-Prince of Wales commissioned the London jeweller Hancocks & Co to create the Egyptian-style necklace in the 1870s for the actress and socialite, who wore it on stage for the first night ...

What it tells us about the past: This amulet, shaped like a scarab beetle, was discovered in the tomb of an ancient Egyptian noblewoman ... This exquisite necklace was excavated in the 1930s ...

And take, for instance, Louis Comfort Tiffany’s stone beaded necklace set in 18-karat gold that mimics a menat, an ancient Egyptian design attached with an amulet meant to ward off evil spirits.

One could argue that the gold chain necklace is the most ubiquitous accessory of all time. The style, which was championed by both ancient Egyptian rulers and early 2000s R&B recording artists ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.