adaptation by presenting their Living Tradition of Anatolian Jewelry Collection at New York’s prestigious Metropolitan, thereby realizing one of the fundamental aims of their research. Following their lead, we would like to take you on a journey through thousands of years of jewelry stretching from Eskişehir to Mardin, from Erzurum to Trabzon.

THE SECRET OF THE 12-PEARL EARRING
Anatolia, cradle of civilizations, is the land where the first gold coins were struck and the first gold jewelry was made. Evolving in the hands of the Hittite, Assyrian, Urartu, Phrygian, Lydian, Ionian, Persian, Greco-Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman civilizations, gold has been part and parcel of Anatolian life for thousands of years. And Eskişehir today is one of the leading centers for jewelry from the standpoint of historical richness and techniques for working gold. ‘Cebe’ is the first technique that catches the eye in Eskişehir, a legendary land where settlement goes back to 4000 B.C. Gold wires, woven on looms exactly like carpets, form the basis of this technique,