News — Egyptian Jewelry
Health, Life and Happiness - Our Most Popular Pendant Is Full of Meaning
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We all seek health, good life and happiness. It has been our pleasure to provide a pendant that represents just that. This pendant is our smallest and arguably most powerful one. The pendant has 5 symbols which represent these important values.The Eye of Horus at the top is a healing symbol. It symbolizes protection for the wearer and their strength. In the middle are ancient symbols that represent health, life, and happiness. The bottom is the lotus flower, symbolizing rebirth and rejuvenation. In Egyptian mythology, the sun was born from a lotus.These symbols are beautiful, meaningful and popular. We offer these cartouche pendants in the...
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New Jewelry Inspired by Egypt using Vintage Scarabs - Available on Etsy
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At Discoveries, we are making new jewelry using vintage pieces to bring Egypt to our customers. We have recently discovered scarabs collected by Steve back in the 1980s. Historically, a lot of the jewelry found in royal tombs was made from Lapus Lazuli, Turquoise and other stones.We are offering many of the vintage pieces (scarabs, statues, silver jewelry) for sale on our Etsy site. In addition to offering vintage items, we have been inspired to create our own custom necklaces, bracelets and earrings from parts we have gathered over the years. Since the beginning, we have been working with jewelers in Egypt to...
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Cartouche History - A Pendant that Protects
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Egyptian Cartouche Pendant - Video of How It’s Made in Egypt
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The owner of Discoveries, Steve Collins, travels to Cairo several times each year to meet with the workshop to help them produce the best possible jewelry for our customers.  We order cartouches every week of the year, sending the specific hieroglyphic symbols for each pendant, and our staff in Cairo delivers the orders to the workshop to make sure that each cartouche is made correctly. After a week or so of hand-crafting the orders, our staff then checks the quality before sending them to our warehouse in Colorado, where we make a final check and carefully package   ...