diamond. Emerald was first translated from Sanskrit as "marakata," meaning "the green of growing things." The name we know it as now is believed to come from an ancient Persian word, "smaragdus." Over time, it was corrupted to "emerald." Records show that the stone was known and sold...
Pliny referred to the jasper as gradually turning into emerald and considered the stone "unripe" or in an incomplete state of metamorphosis. This myth was a natural out growth of the age-old
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