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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 9065573" data-attributes="member: 6988941">Very true, though I'll note that's significantly after the Bronze Age. But one has to assume that a "Diamond Road" of sorts is likely to arise in whatever part of the world had sufficient protection of and freedom of trade as soon as possible.Also since diamonds don't go bad, such that a load of diamonds stolen from a dead emperor's five hundred year old tomb are just as good as freshly found ones, diffusion of diamonds by one means or another would be particularly wide even in a world with limited trade.And I do think (in a D&D rules following world) they would probably be very common in many societies as a burial good, given their association with escaping death. They likely would have been an integral part of marriage ceremonies from ancient times as well, as they are the thing most likely to preserve the prospective marriage from an abrupt end.</blockquote>