Freshwater pearls in Egypt in ancient times

[Caitlin]

Egypt — in addition to using pearls and pearl-shell from other sources (e.g., India), Ancient Egyptians were also familiar with their own local freshwater pearls from Aetheria and Unio species.
Jackson 1916

What is going on with this nowadays?

 

[Caitlin]

Sorry I messed up the above post. It is fixed.

 

[BlackPearlDudeDC]

I was doing my own googling and search on "African" Pearls and this thread is one of the places I've landed...also Kari's place:

karipearl egyptian-information-on-pearls