The sensational discovery of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun - 18th Dynasty revealed the fabulous treasures that accompanied the Egyptian ruler during his lifetime and after his death, as well as the high degree of excellence of the Egyptian goldsmiths. This treasure is, since its discovery in the early evening, in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and is the largest collection of gold objects and jewelry in the world.

The sarcophagus is the mummy was made entirely of gold and this is covered with a huge amount of jewelry. Many other jewelry were found in boxes and boxes in other rooms of the tomb. The crowns, rings, necklaces, pectorals, amulets, pendants, bracelets and earrings are of a quality technical and decorative enormous, scarcely paralleled in the history of jewelry. The ornaments found in the tomb of Tutankhamun are typical and wonderful examples of Egyptian jewelry. The perpetuation of the principles of iconography and color gave the jewelry of ancient Egypt - which has remained a long time without being influenced by other civilizations - a magnificent and solid consistency, enriched by the magical religious beliefs.

One of the most splendid menat made for the pharaoh is what combines the representation of the snake goddess Wadjet with the vulture-goddess Nekhbet. Drawings and sketches were created from tiny gems carved individually and inserted into cells, formed by gold wires attached to a flatbed of gold - a technique known as inlay. Jewelry, as well as all menats, consists of long rows of tiny buds and accounts artistically carved, and the elaborate decoration repeated closures design elements contained in the main part. These collars were shoulder to shoulder, over the chest. Deities and protective Wadjet Nekhbet represent the Lower and Upper Egypt and also adorn the forehead of the mask of Tutankhamun.

A great deal of wings of hawks, vultures, beetles and female deities are also represented on the jewels of the pharaoh, perhaps not only because of the symbolism inherent in these representations, but also because it allowed the artisans wonderful creations in the composition of colors and figures. Several pairs of earrings were found in the tomb of the king, although during the period in which Tutankhamun lived men considered adults did not wear earrings. The earrings are great matches, and were used in pierced ears a diameter wider than it uses today. The holes in the ears of the death mask of Pharaoh are prominent, but these were covered with gold records instead of earrings, since Tutankhamun had reached adulthood before his death.

Like most jewelry found in his tomb, so the bracelets are parts with highly developed and intricate designs, because of the variety of complex reasons. Large beetles, protruding from the surface of the bracelet, were common to most of the ornaments of arm and is a powerful Egyptian symbol of regeneration and rebirth, the beetle also appears in one of five names of Tutankhamun. The tomb of the Pharaoh is the only one to have escaped the tomb robbers who have appeared over the centuries in Egypt. The treasures that the tomb contains attest to the immense wealth of the courts of the ancient pharaohs and are silent witnesses of how much was lost in the art and Egyptian jewelry.

The passion for jewelry (mostly adorned with diamonds and pearls) Queen of France Marie Antoinette, born Austrian Archduchess is well known. With a taste very different from his last two predecessors in the French throne - the Polish and Spanish Leckzinska Maria Maria Theresa of Austria, several pieces of jewelry belonging to the royal crown of France had to change them during his reign.

In May 1770, when the young Austrian woman of 14 years arrived in France, brought in their large and luxurious luggage containing a beautiful ring as a single gem diamond blue-gray heart-shaped weighing 5.46 carats. The ring belonged to the private collection of Marie Antoinette, and only in 1791, after his arrest by members of the Revolution, became the Garde Meuble kept in (the building located on the Place de La Concorde, in Paris, where he deposited the entire collection of the Crown French).

Around 1780 were aggravated malicious rumors against Marie Antoinette, accusing it of dissipation, extravagance and sexual addictions. Being Austrian and foreign - the Austrian Habsburgs held enormous power in Europe then and had been for centuries the enemies of the ruling house French - the French, especially those who were already in favor of a separate system of government than that of absolutism, where tried to defame the queen through pamphlets and serials obscene sold and distributed through the streets of Paris. The slope of Marie Antoinette for luxury (he was a patron of the arts and favored with his patronage, the porcelain made in the town of Sèvres, painters, musicians and actors), the fancy hairstyles and expensive dresses, and the favoritism of a select group of friends and a totally inadequate policy, contributed nothing to the rumors diminished.

What became known as "The Case of the Diamond Necklace" and greatly eroded the image of Marie Antoinette before his subjects, was created from people with totally different situations: the ambitious Madame de Lamotte - Valois impoverished distant descendant of ancient kings French looking for a position at the court of Versailles, the perverted, rich and dangerous Prince De Rohan - Cardinal of France for whom the Queen entertained a great dislike and distrust, and despair jeweler Boehmer - who was handling a fabulously expensive diamond necklace originally tailored for that Louis XV, grandfather and predecessor of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette's husband, such as a gift to his last mistress, Madame Du Barry.

Without direct access to the queen, but using his good looks and a great deal of charm, Madame de Lamotte was able to attract the attention of the cardinal and the jeweler, convincing them that he had a close relationship with Marie Antoinette and that it wanted to buy collar. Overwhelming desire to return to the inner circle of courtiers around Marie Antoinette, the Cardinal let himself be persuaded and took the necklace with the jeweler, Boehmer convinced that he, Cardinal, would cause the Queen to buy the necklace.

Using a prostitute who resembled Marie Antoinette, Madame de Lamotte scored several meetings between the Cardinal and the Queen false evening in the gardens near the Temple of Love at Versailles, where there were rumors that the real queen was there with lovers. In these meetings, the cardinal was deceived that would be received by Marie Antoinette again in his inner circle and thus gave the intriguing Madame collar, so that it did arrive discreetly at the hands of the queen.

When the jeweler Boehmer was the queen and asked for the necklace will be paid, the confusion settled. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were aware of all the details, and dislike of Marie Antoinette and the Cardinal turned to hatred. The king supported his wife to seize the Cardinal - occupying the highest post in Catholic France - in public, in front of the whole court of Versailles. Besides the embarrassment of arrest, the queen wanted revenge and the cardinal was then subjected to a trial by the Parliament of Paris.

The trial was a sensation for months and a lot of dirty laundry from the court of Versailles was washed in public. The result was a disaster for the queen and tell many years later as further evidence against her, during his "trial" by the revolutionary members of the National Convention.

In the end, the nobles who made up the French Parliament acquitted the powerful Cardinal de Rohan of any premeditated insult to the queen and, worse still, they appear in the record that, given the bad reputation of Marie Antoinette - for many years that the Queen was the victim of famous libels, the equivalent in today's tabloids, these were circulating freely in Paris and major French cities and were read by representatives of various social classes - she was worthy of the cardinal had been led to believe that love would receive favors in exchange for a diamond necklace.

But Madame de Lamotte sentenced to prison and marked iron with V (voleur) a thief. However, some time later, she escapes from prison and takes refuge in England. From there it circulates thousands of serials which account falsely that it was the Queen's lover and that it was just a great fun to Marie Antoinette, and that this would have been with the diamond necklace, which is absolutely false.

In October 1793, shortly before his execution, Marie Antoinette gave a magnificent diamond ring with blue-gray to Lubomirska princess, one of his closest friends. With the death of Princess years later, his immense wealth and jewels were divided between four daughters, three of whom were married to members of a Polish aristocratic family, the Potocki.

In 1955, the ring can be appreciated by the public at Versailles on the occasion of the exhibition "Marie Antoinette, Archduchess, Delfina and Queen." In 1983, the auction house Christie's put the ring on sale.

In the 1950-60 many jewelers and gem dealers Americans went to Europe to buy antique jewelry belonging to families who had lost everything during the Second World War. Van Cleef, Cartier and Harry Winston were among them. But only interested in the bud, since the design of the jewelry had been modernized and no one else is interested in the ancient styles. The gems, especially diamonds, rubies and sapphires, was taken from the old pieces and sent to be cut into new forms, but some pieces of jewelry purchased by Harry Winston sold to customers as they were collectors of antique jewelry, such as Marjorie Merriweather Post, later, he donated a substantial number of them to the Smithsonian Museum, located in Washington, USA. Among the donated jewelry, was a pair of diamond earrings belonging to Marie Antoinette.

Raised in a Catholic court and with the imperial mother - in every sense - Maria Theresa of Austria, had his marriage to the French Dauphin Louis Augustus (later Louis XVI) agreed between France and Austria as an important move towards promote a relaxation of tensions between the two countries that fought in the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) and the next two centuries continued to be antagonistic.

Marie Antoinette from the beginning was hated by the courtiers of Versailles, and was unable to position themselves politically (his imperial mother wanted her as a defender of Austrian interests in France and the French wanted the ball away from power at the time), preferring - perhaps because it part of his personality, but also, and certainly taking their actions motivated by the non-consummation of her marriage for long seven years (a period when he faced pressure from the two countries that produced an heir to the throne of France, when in fact it was for only "half guilt "for the failure of marriage suffering) and the total absence of childhood friends from Austria, sent back as soon as the Archduchess first stepped on French soil - a life where the dresses, shoes, hairstyles and the frivolities of the French court had preponderance.

When a mother (four children, two died in infancy), has to be more mature and concerned about what was happening around him. Unfortunately, it could not reverse the negative image it had before the Court and especially the people, tortured by harsh winters and the resulting crops very weak, but rather a victim of the huge deficit created by the French funding the war for independence in the English colonies against England and culminating in the emergence of the United States of North America.

With a weak husband and without the profile to be king of a country like France, then, the queen was imprisoned with his family, first in the palace of the Tuileries, after the old palace of the Temple and finally the Conciergerie, which he left to 38 years of age to the guillotine.

Used throughout the process as a scapegoat by officials of the French Revolution has, however, worthy conduct at all times that has stuck and even in his "trial" (he was previously convicted). He died quite saddened by the death of her husband (who did not love but respected), and even more, because his only surviving son, the Dauphin Louis, having been taken of the hands while still in prison in the Temple and have served as number accusatory against their mother, accusing her of incest, which never occurred and that the devastated.

The ajooba that India is Chand Baori - The Deepest Step Well in the World

Chand Baori is a famous stepwell situated in the village Abhaneri near Jaipur in Indian state of Rajasthan.

The Chand Baori, a vast well with flights of steps on three sides, is a 10th century monument situated in Abhaneri. It is a fine example of the architectural excellence prevalent in the past. This impressive step well is as deep as a seven storeyed building. The famous Harshat Mata temple situated opposite to this well shows that there must have been a religious connection with the step-well. The well is 35 m on each side with steps leading down from each side and water can be drawn from any level.

Legends say that ghosts build it in one night and that it has so many steps to make it impossible for someone to retrieve a coin once it's been dropped in the well. Kyun hai na gr888???? RAB RKHHA:)Cheers !!! -PraXx

Onam is essential a harvest festival, a token of prosperity, which is celebrated very passionately by Malayalis all over the country. On this day, you will see girls draping up themselves in cream color sarees with a golden borders, instead of the regular wear.

Onam Sadya is nine-course meal consisting of 13 essential dishes. The grand food is served on a banana leaves in a traditional manner. There are many restaurant in Bangalore which are holding up a festive offer and providing the best Kerala food. Many Hotels and Restaurant have declared a week long Kerala Food Festival.

If you are in Banglaore and like to enjoy the best Kerala food you can always visit:

1) Kairali Family Restaurant in Kammanhalli, which serving 18 curries with rice, sambhar, and 24 items sadya items for just Rs. 150.

2) Onam Sadya at Karavalli - Hotel Gateway - Raj Bhavan Road Bangalore 

3) Kerala Food festival at The Zuri WhiteField - Whitefield Road, Near ITPL,
Bangalore - Aug 31 - Sep 06

This is 10 day long Harvest Festival:

Day 1: Atham - Considered as Auspicious Day
Day 2: Chithira : People increase the size of the pookalam with flowers
Day 3: Chodhi : Size of the Attha poo is further increased with additional design and flowers
Day 4: Visakam: Brisk activities in the market and households
Day 5: Anizham: Grand boat race, Vallamkalli
Day 6: Thriketa: People staying away start the homeward journey
Day 7: Mulam : With just two days left for the festival, enthusiasm grips Kerala
Day 8: Pooradam: Devotees create clay idols of small pyramids
Day 9: Uthradam: Some people begin festivities in on large Scale
Day 10: Thiruvonam : Onam

This festival is celebrate in Grand way with boat racing and many more games and festival. 

Happy Onam