LARGE 22 mm LAPIS LAZULI BEAD 82 CARATS AG 1673

Description

LAPIS LAZULI BEAD

ROUND BEAD HOLE DRILLED

SOURCE AFGHANISTAN

SIZE 22 MM

The best lapis lazuli is found in limestone in the Kokcha River valley of Badakhshan province in northeastern Afghanistan , and these deposits in the mines of Sar-e-Sang have been worked for more than 6,000 years.[ 7] Afghanistan was the source of lapis for the ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations, as well as the later Greek and Roman; during the height of the Indus valley civilization about 2000 B.C. , the Harappan colony now known as Shortugai was established near the lapis mines.