Wasim Sijjad

The Gem That Stole a Kingdom

It began with a glint in the earth—a shimmer so faint it could have been a trick of the sun. In 1072, in the rugged hills of Golconda, India, a miner’s pickaxe struck something extraordinary: a diamond so massive, so luminous, it seemed to pulse with a life of its own. The locals called it the Koh-i-Noor, the "Mountain of Light." Little did they know that this gem, roughly the size of a hen’s egg, would ignite wars, topple dynasties, and leave a trail of blood and obsession that stretches across a thousand years. This is the story of the world’s most infamous diamond—and how it didn’t just steal a kingdom, but rewrote history itself.