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Egyptian pharaohs prized the stones, sometimes sending thousands of miners under guard to the Sinai Peninsula to find them. In the New World, prehistoric Indians used turquoise for pendants, beads, mosaics, and carved figures.

The “Sky Stone”

One Indian legend credits a mythical mountain of turquoise with radiating blue color to the sky. However, natural “sky stones’’ are dull looking, waxy in luster, and may be soft and breakable.

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