‘Drowning to X-rays, diamond workers lived similarly in 17th century India and 20th century South Africa’

Tijl Vanneste is a historian at The Institute of Contemporary History in Nova University, Lisbon. Speaking from Portugal with ...

One of the world's most precious and storied diamonds ended up in a Canadian bank vault

The story of the Florentine Diamond goes back to the powerful Medici family of Italy. The diamond’s first owner was the Duke of Tuscany and future Ferdinand II (1610-1670), a member of the ruling ...