An X-ray of Kha's mummy shows that it was "adorned with a gold necklace and heavy earrings, one of the earliest examples yet found of men wearing earrings."

The caption read: "The strangle of pearls is OUT; heavy earrings and flashy fakes are OUT."

It is common to tear the earlobe with the weight of very heavy earring, or a traumatic pull of an earring.

Women were excessively adorned and wore large diadems, bracelets and circlets, hair spirals, heavy earrings in the shape of grape clusters, large heavy pendants (also worn by men and children).

However, heavy earrings worn over extended periods of time may lead to stretching of the earlobe and the piercing.

Behind him stood a brass- turbaned Nubian, naked down to the waist, and with heavy earrings in his split ears.

Tearing of the earlobe from the weight of heavy earrings, or from traumatic pull of an earring (for example by snagging on a sweater), is fairly common.

Gold necklaces and bracelets abounded, and heavy earrings dangled from elongated lobes.

She wore a short fawn-colored suede skirt, brown lizardskin shoes, heavy dull-gold earrings.

McNab, aren't all those earrings heavy on the lobe?