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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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Afghanistan: Overview
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...year. Deposits of petroleum, coal, copper, high-grade iron ore, talc, barite, sulphur, lead, zinc, salt, lapis lazuli, and other semiprecious and precious gemstones exist; some are extracted. Before 1978, 85 percent of the population...
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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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gemstones
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...the source of beryl, corundum, tourmaline, topaz, and many other precious stones. Garnet, emerald, jade, and lapis lazuli are among the gemstones created by metamorphic processes. All the more durable gems may be found concentrated in alluvial...
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Tutankhamen Curse
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...After three thousand years, four burial chambers were uncovered with nearly five thousand objects of gold, alabaster, lapis lazuli, and onyx, in addition to the mummy of the king and his gold mask. These treasures have expanded modern understanding...
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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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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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Sir Charles Leonard Woolley
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...oversaw the excavation of the prehistoric cemetery at Ur, which included 16 royal tombs with treasures of gold and lapis lazuli and evidence of large-scale human sacrifice. Later excavations led by him were those of the Syrian sites of Al...
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