Jens Notroff<p>Part 6 of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@thecontinent" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>thecontinent</span></a></span>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MuseumOfStolenHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MuseumOfStolenHistory</span></a> tells us about the largest rough diamond ever found in Africa: the mighty <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CullinanDiamond" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CullinanDiamond</span></a>, which - discovered in 1905 - now lives on in several pieces, most of them embedded in: Britain's Crown Jewels.</p><p><a href="https://continent.substack.com/p/the-museum-of-stolen-history-part-1b9" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">continent.substack.com/p/the-m</span><span class="invisible">useum-of-stolen-history-part-1b9</span></a></p>
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World History Encyclopedia<p>The Koh-i-Noor diamond (also Koh-i-Nur or Kūh-e Nūr) is one of the largest and most famous cut diamonds in the world. <a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/Koh-i-Noor/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">worldhistory.org/Koh-i-Noor/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BritishCrownJewels" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BritishCrownJewels</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CullinanDiamond" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CullinanDiamond</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Koh" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Koh</span></a>-i-Noor</p>
World History Encyclopedia<p>The Crown Jewels of the monarchy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland are today kept in the Tower of London and date mostly to the 17th century CE, with a few later sparkling additions such as the Koh-i-Noor and Cullinan diamonds. The regalia does, though, include several medieval articles and many of the gemstones have a much older (and often darker) history than the cro...<a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/British_Crown_Jewels/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">worldhistory.org/British_Crown</span><span class="invisible">_Jewels/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BritishCrownJewels" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BritishCrownJewels</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CullinanDiamond" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CullinanDiamond</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EdwardIofEngland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EdwardIofEngland</span></a></p>
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