A new walking trail in Muharraq explains a legacy of the gem dating to the Bronze Age.

Customers at a Bahrain jewellery store study displays of pearls that are, unusually, 100 percent natural -- the result of attempts to preserve a centuries-old industry. While rare elsewhere ...

With pearl beds bigger than Manhattan, Bahrain is looking to revive its traditional pearl industry – once the backbone of the country’s economy.

The history of natural pearls is so intertwined with the Arabian Gulf, it is almost impossible to think of one without the other. For millennia, these waters were the world’s most prolific ...

On and around the southernmost point of Muharraq city, close to Bahrain's capital Manama, a Pearling Path, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2012, is at its final stages of renovation ...

Clearly there are easier ways to make a living. The trade of cultured pearls is forbidden in Bahrain, and there are only around five pearl merchants left.

Bahrain's Pearl roundabout, the focal point of the island kingdom's 2011 Arab Spring protests, has reopened to traffic after being guarded by security forces for years.

Bahrain’s authorities have demolished the Pearl Roundabout monument which had become the symbolic heart of the country’s protest movement as forces continued a crackdown.

A real gem: In Bahrain, only natural pearls will do The Gulf nation is the sole country worldwide to have banned the cultivation of artificial pearls, which have flooded the market since the 1920s ...