The recent museum theft alert in France has again brought the world's attention to one of the world's most famous gems – the Regent Diamond. Now safe in the Louvre, the story of the diamond begins in 17th-century India, in the fabled Kollur mines along the Krishna River.
As told by legend and recorded history, the diamond was unearthed by a slave miner during the 1687 Golconda siege by Emperor Aurangzeb.
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The slave concealed the stone in a pretended wound in his leg to avoid discovery.
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