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lapis lazuli
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
lapis lazuli , gem, deep blue, violet, or greenish blue in color and usually flecked with yellow iron pyrites. It is composed of lazurite...
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Sumerian and Babylonian art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Philadelphia); a gaming board of wood inlaid with bone, lapis lazuli, shell, and stone, mounted in bitumen (c.2700...offering stand in the shape of a ram, made of silver, lapis lazuli, and mussel shells, rearing on his hind legs to eat...
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Afghanistan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...are the highlands of Badakhshan (with the finest lapis lazuli in the world), Afghan Turkistan, the Amu Darya plain...sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, emeralds, and lapis lazuli; oil fields are found in the north. Some small-scale...
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Hittite art and architecture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...deities is a series of ornaments from Carchemish made to adorn a royal golden robe; they are carved in steatite and lapis lazuli and mounted in gold cloisons, each 5/8 in. (14.5 cm) high (7th cent. BC; British Mus.). The Hittites adapted...
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Shah Jahan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...exactly of the same size as those a foot above the floor level. Onyx, jasper, cornelian, carbuncle, malachite, lapis lazuli, and other precious stones are studded in the mosaic. It has been described as "A Dream in Marble." The Jama Mosque...
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Balkh
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...located on natural travel routes at a source of water, the town was important as early as the 3d millennium BC, when the lapis lazuli trade to Mesopotamia began. Alexander the Great reputedly founded a Greek colony at the site c.328 BC The city later...
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Indus Valley
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...existence of social differentiation and long distance trade networks as attested by the presence of marine shells, lapis lazuli, and turquoise in even the earliest graves (p. 311). From this evidence one can see that the development of food...
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gemstones
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...and other various colours 6.5–7.0 January Jade Green 6.5–7.0 ―― Lapis lazuli Azure blue 6.5–7.0 September Moonstone Whitish blue 6.0–6.5 June Onyx Various, black...
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Badakhshan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the Amu Darya River. The capital is Faizabad . Renowned for its mineral wealth, it is the world's chief source of lapis lazuli, a semiprecious stone. The deposits have been worked for more than 3,000 years. Rubies, emeralds, amethysts...
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Crystal Healing
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
...example, amethyst is said to be useful against acne , atacamite against venereal diseases, agate against ulcers, and lapis lazuli against stroke symptoms. Crystals may also be used to counter environmental hazards such as electromagnetic radiation...
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