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The Ziwiye hoard was uncovered on the south shore of Lake Urmia in Ziwiyeh, Kurdistan Province, Iran, in 1947.  The Iranian plateau was the crossroads of a cultural highway as well as a physical one ... on the "Silk Road" of the ancient world, and the hoard contains objects four distinct styles: Assyrian, Scythian, proto-Achaemenid, and the locals. |   |
  | Containing artefacts of exquisite workmanship, the hoard contains gold, silver and ivory objects and are dated to around 700 B.C.  
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 | Bankers Petroleum Ltd.- BNK.t is an oil and gas exploration and production company focused on developing the Patos-Marinza heavy oil field and the Kucova oil and gas reserves in Albania. The Patos-Marinza oilfield is the largest onshore oilfield in continental Europe, holding approximately 5.4 billion barrels of original oil in place. The Kuçova field has 297 million barrels of original-oil-in-place. |  |
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 | It was believed to be the largest ever gems heist in Britain. The thieves' haul totalled 43 items of jewellery, consisting of rings, bracelets, necklaces and wristwatches. One necklace alone has been reported as being worth more than £3.5m |  |
 | Aman Kassaye, who planned and executed the heist, was found guilty of conspiracy to rob, kidnap and possession of a firearm after a three-month trial. On 7 August 2010, he was sentenced to 23 years in prison. Three other men – Solomun Beyene, 25, of London, Clinton Mogg, 43, of Bournemouth, and Thomas Thomas, 46, of Kingston upon Thames – were each jailed for 16 years after also being convicted of conspiracy to rob. As of August 2010, none of the stolen jewellery has been recovered. Experts believe the jewellery has probably been broken up so the precious stones could be anonymously resold after being recut. |  |
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 | The onyx and diamond panther bracelet was once owned by Wallis Simpson, whose love affair with King Edward VIII led to his abdication in 1936. It is assumed that Madonna purchased the piece on November 30, 2010 for $ 12.4m. |  |
| The ring is set with a triangular-cut fancy vivid blue diamond, weighing 10.95 carats, and a triangular-cut diamond, weighing 9.87 carats, and dates from 1972. It was purchased by an Asian collector on May 19, 2010 for $ 15.7m |  |
 | The Chloe Diamond is a brilliant-cut diamond, weighing 84.37 carats, bought by Georges Marciano, the founder of clothing company Guess? Inc. Marciano named the stone “the Chloe Diamond” after his then 12-year-old daughter. The diamond sold for $16.2 Million at Sotheby's Geneva in 2007. |  |
 | In November 2012, Christie's sold the cushion-shaped, colourless, 76.02-carat Archduke Joseph Diamond for $21.5 million. |  |
 | A 14.23 carat diamond, named The Perfect Pink, sold for $23,165,968 in November 2010 to an anonymous buyer after an intense bidding war with four others. Christie's says only 18 diamonds bigger than 10 carats and showing a distinct pure pink colour have ever gone on the block in 244 years of auction history. |
| The Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond is a cushion-cut fancy deep grayish blue diamond weighing 35.56 carats. It sold at auction in December 2008 for $24.3m The diamond originates from the Indian kingdom of Golkonda. It's rumored that King Philip IV of Spain purchased the jewel and included it in the dowry of his teenage daughter, Margaret Teresa, in 1664. |  |
 | On 15 May 2013 Christie’s auctioned the "Winston Legacy" in Geneva for $ 26.7m. A pear-shaped perfect diamond weighing 101.73 carats, this sensational gemstone is not only one of the largest pear-shaped diamonds known to date, it is also one of the world’s most perfect diamonds: a D colour, Type IIA Flawless gem. The rough stone weighed 236 carats when it was extracted from the Jwaneng mine (DeBeers) in Botswana and required 21 months to polish. |  |
 | The Princie Pink is a cushion-cut 34.65 carats and is one of the finest and largest of its kind. The stone can be traced back to the ancient diamond mines of India. The diamond was sold at auction in 1960 where it brought a price of 46,000 pounds sterling (approximately $69,588 in today's currency). The stone sold for $ 39m in April, 2013. http://pennystockjournal.blogspot.ca/2013/04/princie-pink-expected-to-bring-40m.html |  |
 | The Graff Pink is a vivid pink, round-cornered rectangular step-cut diamond weighing 24.78 carats, set between shield-shaped diamond shoulders, in platinum. It sold on November 10, 2010 for $ 46.2m http://pennystockjournal.blogspot.ca/2013/04/the-graff-pink-most-expensive-gem-ever.html |  |
