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Description: | Lazurite is the blue coloured mineral that gives lapis lazuli its colour. Lapis lazuli is actually a rock, being made up of several minerals, including calcite and iron pyrite, which gives it its gold coloured flecks. Lapis lazuli was highly prized by the ancient Egyptians. The only known source of this material in the ancient world was in Afghanistan, so the Egyptians used artifical materials like blue glass (in the funeral mask of Tutankhamun), and 'Egyptian blue' for their wall paintings and coffins, as substitutes for this rare commodity. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | beyond the North East rocks and minerals natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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