The $40 million Princie Diamond isn’t the only big-ticket sparkler that has provoked legal battles and family upheaval. Over the centuries, important diamonds have been known to contribute to ...

1. The Diamond -- 2. The Ancient World -- 3. Early Persia and the East -- 4. Medieval Europe -- 5. The Dawn of Diamond Cutting in Europe -- 6. The Fifteenth-Century Technical Revolution -- 7.

This video is no longer available. Some new bling is on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, in D.C., as the museum unveiled an exhibit called Great American Diamonds on ...

The diamond’s current setting, once described by Evalyn Walsh McLean as a “frame of diamonds,” was originally created by Pierre Cartier and has remained largely unchanged since the early 1900s. NMNH, ...

The presence of diamonds in an outcrop atop an unrealized gold deposit in Canada's Far North mirrors the association found above the world's richest gold mine, according to University of Alberta ...

At about a billion years old, the newest items on display at the Natural History Museum are among the oldest, rarest and, thanks to their striking colors, possibly the prettiest objects inside the ...

Africa produces more than half of the world’s diamonds. As Cleveland’s book makes clear, a combination of high value and low volume makes the stones a destabilizing resource, and the concept of “blood ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Unearthed in a South Africa mine in 1905 and weighing 3,106 carats, the Cullinan—named after Thomas Cullinan, the chairman of the ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google Following Queen Elizabeth II’s death last week, critics have renewed calls for the British government to return ...