LAPIS LAZULI BEAD

ROUND BEAD HOLE DRILLED

SOURCE AFGHANISTAN

SIZE 6 X 6  MM

40.15 CARATS

24 PCS BEADS

The best lapis lazuli is found in limestone in the Kokcha River valley of Badakhshan province in northeastern Afghanistan , and these deposits in the mines of Sar-e-Sang have been worked for more than 6,000 years.[ 7] Afghanistan was the source of lapis for the ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations, as well as the later Greek and Roman; during the height of the Indus valley civilization about 2000 B.C. , the Harappan colony now known as Shortugai was established near the lapis mines.