THE EMERALD, PRECIOUS STONE OF THE MONTH OF MAY
The emerald is the gem of the month of May, a fascinating stone millennial and that one civilization lover of beauty like that of Ancient Egypt, he discovered and used it as an ornamental stone, for jewelry and for architectural decorations.
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The Egyptians believed that it also had magical powers that through purifying rituals, could heal from disease and represented immortality, reincarnation and fertility.
It was also believed that if placed under the tongue, it could help predict the future and improve memory and expressive ability. The emeralds came from the mines inside Egypt still known today as the Cleopatra mines and which will be exploited for many centuries also by Greeks and Romans.
Today these mines are exhausted, but Egyptian emeralds would not match the modern jewelery market. They were stones of poor quality to obtain stones worthy of the beauty that we find today in Colombian or African ones.
It was around 1500 that the conquistadors discovered the Colombian mines of Muzo and Chivor, raiding the land and the South American people to bring the gems to India where today they rely on most of the raw minerals destined to be cut for the jewelry industry. .
The cut that is almost always performed to best enhance the emerald is the rectangular stepped one called "emerald cut"
Today even the emeralds from Zambia exhibit the intense color and the most characteristic and precious shade of this gem.
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