Lapis Lazuli

The name comes from the Latin lapis, which means gemstone, and lazuli comes from the Arabic term allazjward, which means paradise.

Its history begins more than 6,500 years ago when it was used by the inhabitants of Mesopotamia, China and Egypt. It was a gemstone more valued than gold,
due to its unique and deep color, which was a symbol of purity, health, luck and nobility.

Lapis lazuli was used to adorn the funerary masks of great Egyptian pharaohs, in the Sumerian tombs of Ur, more
than 6,000 small statuettes of this beautiful gemstone. and it is said that Cleopatra used it as a powder to give
color to her eyelids. later in the middle ages renowned painters used it to give color through ultramarine blue.