The beautiful ancient carnelian beads from ancient Roman times from Afghanistan Afghanistan was part of ancient roman empire The carnelian beads were gold plated or you can say was folded or cover in gold in ancient times as you can see in the above pictures as passage of time the gold cover or plated gold leaf lost because of long period and passage of times but still we can see the gold leaf on almost every bead The age of this beads are more than 2000 years some small size agate beads and some wax gold plated brass beads are used as spacers best gift for the people who collect ancient beads and best for the people who study ancient history we provide fast and free shipping to our customers by which you can get the item by 7 maximum working days