NE163 - SUPERB 35" WEARABLE AUTHENTIC ANCIENT EGYPTIAN "MUMMY BEAD" FAIENCE, STONE AND CLAY BEAD NECKLACE

Product Description

ID

Necklace

FOUND

Egypt	

AGE

1850 - 33 B.C.

SIZE

35" long (enough to multiple
 pieces of jewelry or restrung 
into one long continuous strand)

CONDITION

INTACT, ORIGINAL CONDITION WITH
MODERN RESTRINGING.  MINERAL
DEPOSITS EMBEDDED SHOW 
AGE AND AUTHENTICITY.  

NOTE

SUPERB PRESERVATION!!!  
SO MANY OF THESE ON THE
MARKET ARE FAKE.  THIS ONE
SHOWS OBVIOUS AGE TRAITS WITH
MINERAL DEPOSITS.  ONLY FOUND ON 
GENUINE EXAMPLES.  

LONG ENOUGH TO RESTRING INTO
MULTIPLE WEARABLE PIECES OR
MADE KEPT AS ONE LONG STRAND!

Actual Item - One Only

Comes with a certificate of
authenticity / information sheet

This is a beautiful restrung necklace using  authentic ancient Egyptian faience, stone and clay beads.  These beads all feature ancient mineral / sediment deposits in their microscopic crevices - evidence ONLY associated with AUTHENTIC ANCIENT beads.  Beware of modern fakes.  GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC and from a very small lot we have had for nearly 30 years.

The beads have been recently temporarily restrung on thread and if professionally restrung, they may be safely worn today.   Because of its length, this unusually long strand can be restrung into multiple pieces by any local jeweler or kept as a continuous long necklace. 

Be wary of modern copies that have been around for many decades and sold to unsuspecting tourists and brought back as an "authentic" piece, now littering numerous old collections.  In our own museum lab facility, we subject to rigorous inspection and authentic every artifact we offer for sale, accompanied by a written lifetime, unconditional guarantee of authenticity and proper identification.

Faience was an invention by the ancient Egyptians which is a kiln fired mixture yielding a glaze that resembles the blue-green color of their prized gemstone, turquoise.  The Egyptians made many objects and beads in faience and its oldest record dates back to Pre-Dynastic Egypt in the 4th millennium B.C.. 

At the end of the Pleistocene Period in the Nile Region, temperate conditions made for an ideal environment for the birth of a highly specialized Neolithic society between 7000 B.C. and 3000 B.C..  The Neolithic Fayum farming societies of Egypt cultivated emmer wheat and flax for cloth production.  They grew their crops by the lake in the Fayum depression, hence the name for their tool culture.  The Neolithic peoples also raised and herded goat, sheep, pig and cattle.  Their living quarters left no trace in some regions but were likely made from reeds or skins over a light frame.  Wattle-and-daub villages have also been attributed to these peoples.  These Neolithic societies represent the oldest evidence of food production from the Nile dating back to 4400 B.C..  As time progressed, the farming villages gave way to cities and kingdoms, ushering in the famous ancient Egyptian Dynasties.