Find out if your pearls are worth anything. The value of pearls can vary significantly depending whether they are natural or ...

The world's first cultured pearls were born in Ise-Shima in Mie Prefecture. On this episode of Journeys in Japan, Do Minh Khai from Vietnam explores the Ise-Shima area, the home of magical pearls.

For at least 164,000 years, oysters have been part of the human diet, but people have been finding pearls in oysters for much longer — as early as 2300 BC when Chinese royalty received them as ...

The oyster then coats it with thin layers of a mineral secretion, forming the pearl over a few years. The pearls you find in stores are cultured, which means humans put a particle into an oyster ...

When the vendor approaches the tourist, he openly declares that the pearls are not genuine but “cultured” and shares that the pearl necklace is just ₹150. The vendor also had a lower-quality ...