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#jewelleryfacts365 155/365 Pearl facts

Low-grade pearls are crushed up into a fine shimmery translucent powder and used as a make-up.

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"The Rose Of Asia" Elbaite Tourmaline - Paprok, Afghanistan

#jewelleryfacts365 154/365 Gold fact

Nearly 40 percent of all gold ever mined was recovered from South African rocks.

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Hand beaded shoes by Zulu beader Lindi. From Hillcrest, South Africa

#jewelleryfacts365 153/365 Gem fact

The word "bead" comes from the Anglo-Saxon words bidden (to pray) and bede (prayer).

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#jewelleryfacts365 152/365 Copper fact

In the Hippocratic Collection (named for, although not entirely written by, the Greek physician Hippocrates, 460 to 380 B.C.), copper is recommended for the treatment of leg ulcers associated with varicose veins. To prevent infection of fresh wounds, the Greeks sprinkled a dry powder composed of copper oxide and copper sulfate on the wound. (source)

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#jewelleryfacts365 151/365 Gem fact

Obsidian was valued in Stone Age cultures because, like flint, it could be fractured to produce sharp blades or arrowheads. Like all glass and some other types of naturally occurring rocks, obsidian breaks with a characteristic conchoidal fracture. It was also polished to create early mirrors. Modern archaeologists have developed a relative dating system, obsidian hydration dating, to calculate the age of obsidian artifacts.

Ancient Egyptian Mirror 

Gold foil, silver, glass, alabaster, obsidian, porphyritic diorite

Dynasty 18, reign of Thutmose lll

ca. 1479-1425 B.C.

From the tomb of the three minor wives of Thutmose lll in the

Wady Gabbanat el-Qurud, Thebes

This funerary ogject belonged to one of three foreign (Semitic) wives of Thutmose lll, Maruta, Manhata, and Manuwai. Maruta may, in fact, be the hieroglyphic version of the familiar Hebrew name Marta. The mirror was discovered, together with vessels and other objects, in a rock-cut cave situated high up in the desert mountain cliffs of the Wady Gabbanat el-Qurud in western Thebes.

The face with cow's ears on this mirror is an emblem of Hathor, the goddess of beauty.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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