Afghanistan's mineral wealth is helping fuel the war that has long ravaged the country, with armed anti-government groups - including the Taliban - earning up to $20 million a year from illegal mining ...

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“Whole economies were built around it,” says Aja Raden, author of Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World. Also called lapis lazuli, or “blue stone”, this hot property has been ...

Somewhere in a box in her office Julie Abouzelof has a pile of pure blue lapis lazuli. The Hawaii-based ethical sourcing advocate, who owns an online healing crystal shop, is struggling to do the ...

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Lapis is a material so ancient that its name simply means “stone.” In antiquity, lapis was the most valuable gemstone of all, prized for its scarcity as much as its looks. “Whole economies were built ...

Medievalists may have to reconsider long-held assumptions about who, exactly, painted all those gorgeous illuminated manuscripts. The intricate role of the scribe has been popularly attributed to ...

Zenith produces some of the most impressive mechanical watch movements on the planet, mostly built on its legendary El Primero chronograph. However, the true beauty of the Chronomaster Original Triple ...