Jewellery trends have been growing world around. But yet there are a lot of interesting facts that we have missed out about jewellery. So did you know some of these mentioned facts below? 

1. Jewellery is one of the oldest archaeological artefacts – with 100,000 year old beads made from Nassarius shells thought to be the oldest known jewellery.
2. Most pearls found today are cultured or manmade. This process is done by inserting a small shell into the oyster, which then painstakingly covers it with pearl material over a minimum of 3 years. 
3. India was the first to mine Diamonds.
4. Only one in a million mined Diamond ends up in a jewellery piece.
5. Precious stones are Diamonds, Rubies, Emeralds and Sapphires, all other stones are semi-precious.
6. The concept of an engagement ring started when Archduke of Austria, Maximilian proposed to the Duchess Mary of Burgundy in 1477.
7. Largest consumer of gold is India. 
8. Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations were the ones who started the organized production of jewellery.
9. The first successful synthetic diamonds were made in 1950s.
10. The Hope Diamond is known to be the most expensive piece of jewellery in the world.
11. United States of America is the biggest known consumer of Diamonds.