| Introducing lapis lazuli | | | | with slight cuts to design the pieces brightly |
| The gemstone like lapis lazuli originates in diverse | | | | tinctured, semi-precious gems, developed in |
| shades of blue along with a lot of features being | | | | Florence in the late 16th century. |
| spotted on white calcite and a number of with | | | | 11. The gems most universally used are granites, |
| yellow. The gorgeous gemstone "Lapis-Lazuli" is | | | | porphyries, petrified woods, and lapis lazuli and |
| surrounded by blue color along with tiny features. | | | | more particularly the lapis lazuli tiles. |
| 1. Lapis lazuli and the lapis lazuli tiles are | | | | 12. The thin deep blue gem stone has a holistic |
| semi-precious gems worth for their deep blue | | | | background. It was among the first and foremost |
| colors. | | | | gem stones to be worn as jewelry and employed |
| 2. The medium of the tinctured ultramarine, lapis | | | | on. |
| lazuli is not a mineral but a rock tinctured by | | | | 13. In the mines of the ancient centers of culture |
| lazurite. | | | | nearby the Mediterranean, archaeologists have |
| 3. Besides, the sodality minerals in lapis lazuli and | | | | many times explored among the grave inspiring |
| lapis lazuli tiles are small amounts of white calcite | | | | decorative chains and figures made of lapis lazuli |
| and of crystals designs. | | | | apparent signs that the deep blue gem was by |
| 4. The properties of lapis lazuli tiles are very much | | | | now famous thousands of years earlier among |
| interchangeable. | | | | the citizens of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, |
| 5. The lapis along with deep azure blue color | | | | Greece and Rome. |
| frequently marked with golden enclosures was | | | | 14. It is said that the renowned city of Ur on the |
| kept by primeval Babylonian and Egyptian | | | | Euphrates pursued an emphatic interest on lapis |
| civilizations and sometimes worn by royal families. | | | | lazuli and lapis lazuli tiles business as long ago as |
| 6. Lapis lazuli was emphatically used by most of | | | | the fourth millennium B.C., the substance reaching |
| the Egyptians for various purposes like cosmetics, | | | | towards the land of the two famous rivers from |
| paintings, arts, crafts, worships, spiritual healings, | | | | the renowned deposits in Afghanistan. |
| etc. | | | | 15. Some other cultures, lapis lazuli was considered |
| 7. According to Persian myth, "The heavens kept | | | | as a holy gem, especially in the Middle East, it was |
| their blue colors towards a gigantic slab of lapis | | | | considered to have magical powers. |
| lazuli through which the earth rested upon. | | | | 16. Infinite signet-rings, scarabs and figures were |
| 8. Lapis lazuli and some olden lapis lazuli tiles were | | | | created from the blue gem which Alexander the |
| believed to be used as sacred gem buried with | | | | Great brought to Europe. Here, the color was |
| the dead to secure and help them in the life after | | | | meant to as "ultramarine", which means beyond |
| death". | | | | the sea. |
| 9. Lapis lazuli is one of the gem stones which is | | | | 17. The most famous lapis lazuli tiles are blue |
| used in commesso also recognized as Florentine | | | | tourmaline, cabochon emerald, peridot drop, |
| mosaic. | | | | Champagne topaz, blue green tourmaline, onyx |
| 10. Commesso is a method of styling the pictures | | | | mosaic tiles, lapis pendants, etc. |