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The most famous diamonds

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The extraordinary value always attributed by humans to large diamonds and to their rarity, gave the possibility to follow during the course of centuries the history of some famous people.

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One of the first known diamonds belonged in fact to Karna, King of Anga, who lived in India in 3000 A.D.

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Here are listed the most famous diamonds, divided according to their area of origin.

 

 

1 - The deposits of INDIA

 

3 - The deposits of BRASIL

 

3 - The deposits of SOUTH AFRICA

 

 

 

Several copies of these diamonds, life-size, were exposed at:

Museo di Mineralogia dell’Università di Roma

Piazzale A.Moro 5 – 00185 – Roma

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