Timeline This is a timeline of jewellery production from the first uses of metal in history to the Renaissance 7000 BC Uses of copper in Anatolia Iran and Eastern Europe 5000 BC Uses of copper in Egypt 4000 BC Smelting technology for copper in Egypt and Iran 3450 BC Use of natural zinc copper alloy in Egypt 3500 BC Gold makes an appearance in Egyptian jewellery 3000 BC Egypt and Iran makeing simple hammered iron beads 3000 BC The Middle East employ semi mass production 2000 BC First signs of the swagging technique 2600 BC Beaded wires began to be used 2500 BC Egyptians using copper lead alloys 2500 BC True iron production technology in Near East 2500 BC The intentional addition of silver and copper to gold 2500 BC Gold wires are characterised by seam lines that follow a spiral path along the wire 2000 BC Use of patterned punches 1500 BC Earplugs and earrings become popular in Egypt 1400 BC Egypt Amarna period using resin and mud for repouss backing 1400 BC Deliberate addition of zinc to copper in Canaan 1400 BC Philistines have iron 1400 BC Very copper rich gold alloys popular in Egypt 1000 BC Persian sheet bronze work 0 05 mm thick 1000 BC The start of true engraving 900 BC The Greeks have iron 700 BC World s oldest coinage in Lydia 575 BC In Greece jewellery is still very rare 500 BC Hafted hammers were being used in some parts 500 BC Iron in use in the British Isles 400 BC Greeks using Beeswax for filler in repouss 350 BC Use of combined punches and dies of bronze 325 BC Animal or human headed hoop earrings were popular 300 BC Diadems are first seen 300 BC Red Coral popular in Celtic jewellery AD 50 Start of the Roman period where addition of silver to gold becomes almost unknown AD 100 Sulphur fills hollow gold items throughout the Roman Empire AD 150 Tin rings found in Nubia AD 300 Lead becomes more common in places AD 400 Pewter jewellery is made AD 400 A shale die is found on Great Britain AD 1500 The Renaissance AD 1900 Art Nouveau jewellery Famous jewellers Elias Akaoui founder of Akaoui stores in Cairo Egypt Paolo Bulgari Chairman of Bulgari Pierre Cartier Co founder of Cartier SA Peter Carl Faberg Russian jeweller best known for the fabulous Faberg eggs Ian Harris Jewellery expert to the BBC s Antiques Roadshow Director of N Bloom Son Scott Kay Founder of Scott Kay Inc a bridal jewelry company Kenneth Jay Lane founder of Kenneth Jay Lane Inc Robert Lee Morris influential in the jewelry as art movement Charles Lewis Tiffany founder of Tiffany Co Sotirios Voulgaris founder of Bulgari Sound of jewellery The sound of jewellery has played an enermous part in many stories poems and religious literature more details and sources to come Different jewellery creates different sounds ie plastic bangles create a high pitched clink sound while others such as baxelite produce a clunck sound Knowing how a particular piece of jewellery sounds can help someone identify whether or not a piece of jewellery is fake Indeed people have written about the sound of fake gold and jewel makers such as Sharon Alouf a famous jeweler have praised the high frequency pitched noise of gold bangles most likely real gold she is wearing To this day the jeweler claims the sound of bangles clinking together is very soothing to me It always reminds me of motherhood Alouf is even partial to particular tones Gold produces my favorite sound she says the pitch is higher and clearer which I find energizing