PARIS - Ask any designer what the key to bringing to life a seemingly impossible idea is, and more often than not they'll tell you that it wasn't down to their imagination but to its combination with ...

When it comes to gemstones, rarity often directly affects value. And few stones can rival the near-mythical status of ...

Diamonds and emeralds might dominate the limelight, but there exists a world of gemstones so rare and valuable that they are the stuff of legends. What exactly makes a gemstone rare and valuable? It's ...

The Rolling Stones reach the U.K.'s dance singles chart for only the third time as “Satisfaction Skank” — a collaboration ...

Rare and precious items have always had a grip on the imagination of human beings. Since ancient times, beautiful, rare minerals like jade and gold have been revered, used in everything from jewelry ...

Among the rarest gemstones and most coveted in the world of high jewellery, Brazilian Paraíbas are prized for their almost neon blue-green hue, caused by traces of copper.

Residents of a historic village have been left in shock after names were carved into rare medieval stepping stones. The 41 slabs cross the Ewenny River in Bridgend and are adjacent to the 12th Century ...

Across the hills of Kenya and Tanzania, two gemstones capture the continent’s natural brilliance and enduring mystique: Tanzanite and Tsavorite. Both discovered within a few years of each other in the ...

About 170 years ago a large bundle of stone tools was deliberately buried close to a waterhole in the hard dirt of the remote outback.   Who buried them and for what purpose?  Why were they never ...