~ Skull Necklace.
Culture: Aztec
Period: Late Postclassic
Date: A.D. 1200-1520
Medium: Shell
Source: museum.doaks.org
~ Necklace with seven clam-shell-shaped pendants.
Place of origin: Perú
Culture: Tiahuanaco or Huari
Period: Middle Horizon
Date: A.D. 700–1000
Medium: Silver
Source: artmuseum.princeton.edu
~ Necklace with Uninscribed Scarab.
Place of origin: Abydos, Egypt
Date: ca. 1938-1875 B.C.
Period: Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty
Medium: Amethyst, feldspar
Source: brooklynmuseum.org
~ Necklace.
Place of origin: Egypt
Period: Roman Period
Date: 100-1 B.C.
Medium: Glass, gold, and garnet
Source: asia.si.edu
~ Necklace.
Date: 2300 B.C.–A.D. 1492
Culture: Indigenous American (Pre-Columbian)
Medium: coral, turquoise, cotton
Source: metmuseum.org
~ Necklace.
Date: 500-400 B.C.
Place of origin: Egypt
Medium: Glass and gold
Source: asia.si.edu
~ Necklace of fly beads.
Culture: Egyptian
Period: New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty
Date: 1550–1295 B.C.
Medium: Gold, carnelian
Source: collections.mfa.org
~ Gold Necklace with Amethysts, Glass, and Gold Beads.
Date: A.D. 6th–7th century
Culture: Byzantine
Medium: Gold, amethyst, (colored glass or rock crystal and emerald) beads.
Source: metmuseum.org
~ Necklace of assorted beads.
Culture: Early Aegean, Minoan
Period: Bronze Age, Middle Minoan Period
Date: 1800–1550 B.C.
Medium: Stone and gold
Source: mfa.org
~ Necklace.
Period: Early Byzantine
Date: early A.D. 5th century
Medium: Gold, pearls, sapphires, and emerald plasma.
Source: museum.doaks.org
~Gold Necklace with Profile Head of an Emperor.
Place of origin: Eastern Mediterranean
Culture: Greco-Roman
Date: A.D. 3rd-4th century
Source: collections.lacma.org
~ Lunula or collar.
Place of origin: Southside, near Coulter, Lanarkshire
Date: 2200-1700 B.C.
Period: Early Bronze Age
Medium: Gold
Source: nms.ac.uk
~ Necklace with a small eight spoke wheel.
Date: Late A.D. 1st - 2nd century
Culture: Romano-British
Medium: Silver
Source: nms.ac.uk
~ Painted panel from a wooden casket, depicting Aphrodite in a shrine adorning herself with a necklace.
Culture: Roman
Date: ca. A.D. 250-300
Place of origin: Fayum, Egypt
Mesium: Wood
Source: britishmuseum.org
~ Necklace.
Period: Hellenistic
Culture: Greek
Date: 3rd-2nd century B.C.
Medium: Garnet and gold
Source: nms.ac.uk
~ Necklace with hexagonal beads and 8-spoked wheel closure.
Place of origin: Eastern Mediterranean
Date: A.D. 5th-6th century
Period: Late Roman-early Byzantine period
Medium: Gold with beryl beads.
Source: collections.rom.on.ca
~ Necklace and Pendant Cross.
Date: A.D. 500–700
Place of origin: Medinet Habu (near Thebes), Byzantine Egypt
Culture: Coptic
Medium: Rock crystal, silver mount
Source: metmuseum.org
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