Museumsinsel, or Museum Island, in Berlin contains five museums: Bode, Pergamon, Neues, Altes, and Old National Gallery, as well as the Berlinerdom, or Cathedral. I was able to go to the Pergamon and Neues Museums. In the latter half of the 19th Century and continuing up to the start of WWII, German archeologists worked extensively in Persia, Asia Minor, and Egypt. The museums contains displays of their findings.
These three pictures of various jewelry show pieces that I think are incredibly "modern," as in they look very much, in color and design, if not the actual stones, like a piece of handmade jewelry one might see today.
6th Century BC in the Neues Museum.
Persian, 300-400 BC, Pergamon Museum.
Assyrian jewelry, about 3000 years old.
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