Kohinoor diamond: Kohinoor diamond is one of the most precious diamonds. It is an Indian diamond, but the 13th Mughal ruler Ahmed Shah took care of it. Some time ago, when the British King Charles ...

The first written record of the Koh-i-Noor diamond appears in 1628, during the Mughal Empire. The diamond was set into Mughal ruler Shah Jahan’s Peacock Throne, alongside the Timur Ruby.

In a coup d’état initiated in 1747 by his nephew Adil Shah, a kind of Macbethian character, Nader Shah was assassinated. On his deathbed, he refused to disclose the whereabouts of the diamond ...

The gem, which would come to be known as the Koh-i-Noor Diamond, wove its way through Indian court intrigues before eventually ending up in the British Crown Jewels by the mid-1800s.

Exactly when the 105-carat Koh-i-Noor diamond was discovered is unclear. But according to Smithsonian Magazine, it was part of the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan’s jewel-encrusted “Peacock Throne ...

The royal family has decided to leave the 105-carat gem out of this weekend's coronation ceremony. The Kohinoor has become a focus of anti-colonial anger. India wants it back.

The last time the Koh-i-Noor was used in public was at the Queen Mother’s funeral in 2002. AP The first written record of the diamond appears in 1628 when the diamond was set into the Mughal ...