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lapis lazuli
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Lapis lazuli
Lapis lazuli
, , or
lapis
for short, is a deep blue
semi-precious stone
that has been prized since
antiquity
for its intense color. Lapis lazuli was being mined in the
Sar-i Sang
mines and in other mines in the
Badakhshan
province in northeast
Afghanistan
as early as the
7th millennium BCE
. Lapis beads have been found at
neolithic
burials in
Mehrgarh
, the
Caucasus
, and even as far from Afghanistan as
Mauritania
. It was used for the eyebrows, among other features, on the
funeral mask of Tutankhamun
(1341–1323 BCE).
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