Antiquity

Examples of ancient jewelry were found in Queen Pu-abi's tomb at Ur in Sumeria(now called Tall al-Muqayyar), dating from 3000 BC. In the crypt the queen's body was covered with jewellery made from gold, silver, lapis lazuli, carnelian,agate plus chalcedony beads.

Silver was used in ancient Italy plus Greece for personal ornaments, vessels,jewellery,arrows, weapons plus coinage. It was inlaid plus plated. It was also mixed with Gold to produce white gold as well as being mixed with baser metals.

Aegean lands were rich in precious metals. The considerable deposits of treasure found in the earliest prehistoric strata on the site of Troy are not likely to be later than 2000 BC. The largest of them, called Priam's Treasure, was a large silver cup containing gold ornaments consisting of elaborate diadems or pectorals, six bracelets, 60 earrings or hair rings, plus  9,000 beads. Silver was widely used in the Greek islands however only a few simple vessels, rings, pins, plus headbands survive.

Mycenaean plus Minoan.

one silver dagger blades were found in a communal tomb at Kumasa.Silver seals plus ornaments of the same age were also found in these regions. A silver cup found in Gournia dates to circa 2000. Some vases plus jugsfrom Mycenae are also made of silver. a quantity of the Mycenaean blades are bronze inlaid with gold, , silver, niello plus electrum.