We've been together for thousands of years
The stone has accompanied man since his first days.
And the Stone Age is 99 times longer than the entire subsequent history of mankind.
Vase with jewels, carved from red and yellow jasper. Probable origin Germany, early 17th century, Waddesdon Bequest, British Museum.
Male torso carved from red jasper, Bronze Age, Harappa, Indus Valley Civilization, Pakistan.
Movable Egyptian ring in green jasper and gold, from 664 to 322 BC. or later (late period), [5] at the Walters Art Museum.
Our distant primitive ancestors chipped plates from pieces of stone. They had sharp edges and were used as tools and weapons.
Expert opinion
Semenishcheva Polina
Specialist in mineralogy. Graduated from St. Petersburg Mining University.
Note : don't think it's easy. Jasper spear tips were found, where the master “chipped off unnecessary things” more than a thousand times.
- Jewelry made from multi-colored stones was also found.
- For a long time, the name jasper meant all hard and variegated stones.
- In ancient Egypt, seals and gems were cut from hard stone.
- Archaeologists have discovered jewelry made of gems in the tomb of Tutankhamun. Among them is our heroine.
- Since ancient times, young Greek women tied a jasper amulet to a baby’s cradle.
Decorative basket made of jasper
Scarlet jasper amulet, origin unknown, Royal Pump Room, Harrogate
Elements of the iconostasis made of jasper
Jasper bowl
Theophrastus in his work “On Stones” mentions “Cypriot jasper”.
Biruni in “Mineralogy” writes about jasper (yashb).
The East has always loved green stones. The opaque ones were called “yeshmiye”, “jasper” or “yashab”.
Russian research
There is a sad Odessa joke.
