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Pearls have been valued for their beauty and rarity for more than four thousand years. From ancient China, India and Egypt, to Imperial Rome, to the Arab world that the Indians, cultures from around the world and throughout recorded history have valued these unique, biologically based gems – much longer than any other gem.

The pearl is the only gem which grown inside a living organism. Pearls are formed within oysters or molluscs, when a foreign substance (most often a parasite – not a grain of sand) invades the shell of molluscs entering the soft mantle tissue, and picking up epithelial cells. In response to irritation and epithelial cells form into a sac (known as a pearl SAC), which secretes a crystalline substance called Nacre is the same substance which makes up the interior of the oyster's shell, which builds up in layers around the irritant, is pearl.