Pearl oysters are an important animal for farming in Japan as they produce the beautiful pearls, which are of economic value. But, in the last 20 years, a combination of different factors, such as ...

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 gifts.

An exhibition at L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts, explores the rise and fall of a remarkable trade that briefly made Paris the City of Pearls. Pearls are as rare as they are beautiful. Never out of ...