Lapis Lazuli Black Prayer Beads with Blue Stones
This opaque, deep blue gemstone has a grand past. It was among the first gemstones to be worn as jewelry and worked on. At excavations in the ancient centres of culture around the Mediterranean, archaeologists have again and again found among the grave furnishings decorative chains and figures made of lapis lazuli. . In other cultures, lapis lazuli was regarded as a holy stone.
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