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Show DIAMOND IS MODERN JEWEL i Beautiful Stone as We Know it Today Was Unfamiliar to the Ancient An-cient World. The perfectly cut mid brilliant din-inond din-inond the world knows today Is not very much more than r.0 years old. says n writer In Popular Science. Tho ancient an-cient world knew little of diamonds, dia-monds, From the first Pharaoh to the last, through ail the pageantry of !ll l nasties, diamonds wero unknown In Kgypt. From tho dawn of history, Ilabylon remained utifumlllur with them for -10 centuries. Tho conquest of Alexander ncross the Indus In 827 B. C. acquainted Greece vaguely with their existence, The pntrlclans'of Itomu In tho days of the early empire rarely owned them. Byzantine supremacy, the rise of Venice Ven-ice to maritime power, the Moorish couquest of Spain, brought only a trickle of diamonds Into western Bu-rope. Bu-rope. A fnshlonnhlo Jewelry store in America today carries more diamonds ' In stock than were In all Europe when Columbus sailed from Pnlus. It Rvrtnlnlu ! Tknll |