Scarab Jewelry for Fall 2010: Eye Candy

Bottega Veneta came out with some amazing scarab bracelets, pendants and clutch purses for Fall 2010.  Here are a couple of images from Milan. Other beetle-inspired accents include iridescent green and black leather bags and shoes. Update:  ready-to-wear accessories are now being sold — they’re beautiful!

57 new Egyptian tombs unearthed – interest in Egyptian religion revived

Tombs with mummies and funerary objects were unearthed in Egypt this month, as announced on May 23, 2010 by the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Cairo. Historically, interest in scarabs and  neo-Egyptian jewelry  have followed new discoveries and exhibitions of this kind. The first image I have shows a sarcophagus with a turquoise winged scarab design.