CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The first blue pigment to hold its color was often prized over gold. The semi-precious stone lapis lazuli was ground into an iridescent pigment, sometimes called ultramarine, that ...

Lapis Lazuli is known for its special look. The color blue represents trust. It's the color of the sky, which is expansive and symbolizes freedom. Among spiritual circles, the Lapis Lazuli has been ...

I examine the polished Lapis Lazuli, its rich blue surface sparkling with golden pyrite. The stone emanates a quiet wisdom. Lapis Lazuli, with its deep blue color and golden flecks of Pyrite, is a ...

What Anita Radini noticed under the microscope was the blue—a brilliant blue that seemed so unnatural, so out of place in the 1,000-year-old dental tartar she was gently dissolving in weak acid. It ...

For the uninitiated, Lapis Lazuli is a deep blue semi-precious mineral known since antiquity when it was first mined in Afghanistan as early as the 7th millennium BC. Since it looks pretty awesome ...

Lapis Lazuli, with its deep blue color and golden flecks of Pyrite, is a stone of wisdom, truth, and inner vision. It has been prized for centuries by ancient civilizations for its beauty and its ...