According to the Culture and Tourism Ministry, museums in Turkey house 1,658,275 coins; 688,032 archaeological and 290,573 ethnographical artifacts; 118,005 tablets; 24,885 manuscripts; and 23,894 seals and seal stamps, attracting a large number of domestic and foreign

A Third Person Detained For Hermitage Theft in the story with MORE than 220 objects worth an estimated $100 million (£50 million) who have been stolen from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. 

Vol Hermitage (en français) 5 millions de dollars de joaillerie ont disparu du Musée de l'Ermitage

Vol Hermitage (en français) 5 millions de dollars de joaillerie ont disparu du Musée de l'Ermitage

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Group of Women, Men Hit NY Area Jewelers

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DIRTY DIAMOND LAUNDRY INDUSTRY: Investigates 47th Street

Rock art: Blom has made waves in the industry by artificially producing diamondsafe.

The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) will update the wording and the placement of “brillianteering” comments on its Diamond Grading Report and Diamond Dossier® for standard round brilliant diamonds beginning July 1, 2006.

Diamond cut news from Google

Diamond tel aviv dealers returning

World Diamond Congress set to open in Israel next week, four years after previous event was transferred from country due to intifada. 'This is opportunity to present Israel as good place for doing business,' organizers say. read diamond tel aviv

diamonds usa USA: Diamond Imports from Africa at $1.5B in '05 

Diamond price news

The average price of polished diamonds in June 2006 rose only 2.5 percent over the average for the same month a year ago.

While retail demand for diamonds and diamond jewelry remains relatively solid, jewelry merchants are not re-stocking as rapidly due to near term uncertainty related to the possibility of a global economic slowdown. Further, in the U.S. market, which consumes about half of all polished diamonds worldwide, there is uncertainty over the upcoming holiday selling season of November and December. U.S. jewelry merchants generate about one-third of their annual sales in this all-important two-month period, which includes Christmas, Chanukah, and Kwanza .  

read: June Global Polished Diamond Prices Show Modest Gain

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