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How does this Object tell about the Medival Global
While the craftsman of the necklace remains unknown, we can still connect to them since traces of the skills of the craftsman might be well preserved on each piece of its gold wire and precious stone. The necklace as one piece of jewelry of the Byzantine Empire might have gone unnoticed. But the precious stones might have told the political ambition of the Emperor in assertion of imperial status and its style and materials used is conveying a broader while underlying picture of global communication of the medieval world. Behind the precious stones used in the necklace is a map of global medieval since those stones might have come from different places of the world. But most importantly, born in the period where and the location were staged a wide variety of conflicts, the necklace might also tell a story of the resilience of people in search of beauty.