PARIS - Ask any designer what the key to bringing to life a seemingly impossible idea is, and more often than not they'll tell you that it wasn't down to their imagination but to its combination with ...

Whether it's the revitalization of rare stones or a nod to design movements of the past, these are the top design trends we ...

Diamonds and emeralds might dominate the limelight, but there exists a world of gemstones so rare and valuable that they are the stuff of legends. What exactly makes a gemstone rare and valuable? It's ...

People Born in July Have 'One of the Rarest' Birthstones—Here's What It Is and the Meaning Behind the Stone originally appeared on Parade. Summer is officially here and July babies are ready to party!

A Carthage man may have unearthed one of the rarest gemstones in the world — not in a mine, but in his own front yard. Robert Lewis Jr. says he found an unusual black rock just steps from his home ...

Across the hills of Kenya and Tanzania, two gemstones capture the continent’s natural brilliance and enduring mystique: Tanzanite and Tsavorite. Both discovered within a few years of each other in the ...

The lack of a grading system for the popular stone has prompted a father-son team to spend the last five years working on one. Turquoise stones from the blue and green master sets at the Turquoise ...

The music world of the 1960s was filled with fashion icons, from the Beatles to the Ronettes, from Jimi Hendrix to the Supremes, from Motown to Haight-Ashbury. But for some of us, the mid-1960s ...

About 170 years ago a large bundle of stone tools was deliberately buried close to a waterhole in the hard dirt of the remote outback.   Who buried them and for what purpose?  Why were they never ...