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While Deir El-Medina has been exhaustively dug, no detailed study has ever been carried out of similar remains in the Valley Links of London Jewellery. So far as their daily work lives are concerned, the craftsmen who cut and decorated tombs that today wow millions of visitors have to all intents and purposes disappeared from history (there is an interesting parallel here with modern Egyptian laborers, whose crucial contribution to the uncovering of their country’s past has also been shamefully overlooked).

This was the gap we were hoping to fill, specifically by excavating a series of ancient workers’ huts that once sat on the Valley floor and which are now Links of London Necklaces, 3000 years later, buried beneath five meters of compacted sand and rubble.

The existence of these huts has long been known (Howard Carter dismantled one such group to get to Tutankhamun) Links of London Bracelets. We were the first expedition to systematically dig and record them, however, in the process turning up numerous artifacts from which we were able to build a picture, albeit an incomplete one, of what life was like in the Valley three millennia ago.

Now I freely admit that, on the face of it, the fact that a group of navvies once snacked on fish and bread, worshipped at small, makeshift shrines, scribbled notes to themselves, practiced their drawing and amused each other with scurrilous graffiti of stubble-chinned pharaohs and men with giant penises — none of this is especially glamorous or earth shattering Links of London Bangles, particularly when measured against the amazing objects found a few meters away in Tut’s tomb.

What would you do if the entire contents of two display cases suddenly disappeared? That’s the question 265 former U.S. accounts of Tiffany & Co. are asking themselves links of london. When Tiffany halted sales from its trade division eight months ago to focus on store development, it left a major void in the inventories of those 265 retailers, some of whom relied on Tiffany products for as much as 20% of their business. And jewelers miss the venerable blue box–the classic emblem of the Tiffany purchase.

But U.S. jewelers–and those in Europe Links of London Rings, too, as of July–are learning to cope. “I’d prefer to sell the line, but there’s nothing we can do about it,” says Tim Greve, president of Carl Greve Jewelers in Portland, Ore., which sold Tiffany products for 14 years. “But the upside is that now I’m finding new business in different areas Links of London Bracelets,” he adds.

Life after Tiffany. Jewelers suffering from Tiffany withdrawal have had two options: brand their own merchandise or pick up comparable lines. Most jewelers have made a virtue of necessity and transformed the predicament into an opportunity to strengthen their store’s brand and identity or to offer unique–sometimes exclusive–products to their customers.

When confronted with Tiffany enthusiasts seeking “blue-boxed” items, jewelers explain the products’ absence and suggest comparable pieces. Marc Green, vice chairman of Lux Links of London Earrings, Bond & Green in West Hartfield, Conn., is delighted with the opportunity to step up company branding efforts, despite a lifelong relationship with Tiffany. “Now we’re constantly marketing ourselves,” he says. Since Lux, Bond & Green products replaced Tiffany stock at Green’s store in January, sales have remained steady, he reports.