Researchers using computer analysis have traced the origin of the famed Hope Diamond, concluding that it was cut from a larger stone that was once part of the crown jewels of France. A French ...

"The evidence very much supports the theory that it was cut from the French Blue diamond," said Jeffrey Post, the curator of gems and minerals at the National Museum of Natural History in ...

And the history of the diamond is a complex one: It was bought somewhere in India in a rougher, less finely-cut shape by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, a French merchant, and brought to France in 1668.