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Faroe Islands Pearl Diamond Wedding Fashion Jewelry.

By Aamir Mannan.

Pearls were undoubtedly first discovered and appreciated in the East or the Orient, but where exactly in the Orient were they first discovered or, were they discovered and came to be appreciated in more than one place independent of one another possibly at different times or periods? The answer to this difficult question has to be sought by identifying the most ancient sources of pearls in the world, and obviously the first people who would have discovered and learnt to appreciate pearls were the people living along the shoreline of these sources. 

The most ancient sources of pearls in the world are believed to be the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Mannar between India and Sri Lanka. Pre-historic people living in these regions were probably the first to stumble upon the first pearls known to mankind, obviously during their quest for food. The fact that these were the same regions where some of the earliest human civilizations began, seem to consolidate the view that the discovery and appreciation of pearls also began in these regions. However, it may be difficult to pinpoint an exact region where the discovery and appreciation of pearls first began. It was quite possible that such discovery and appreciation began in the Persian 

Gulf/Red Sea region (the Middle East) and the Gulf of Mannar region (India and Sri Lanka), simultaneously or at different times independent of one another, just as much as the discovery and appreciation of pearls in the New World (the Americas and the Caribbean) had taken place independently of the Old World discoveries, long before Columbus discovered America. This webpage examines the archaeological and other evidences available that might establish the Persian Gulf/Red Sea region as the possible region where the discovery and appreciation of pearls first began. Evidences available to support the Gulf of Mannar region as another possible region where the discovery and appreciation of pearls first began, are considered separately on a different webpage dedicated for this purpose.