 |  | | | Gemstones - Emerald | 7 July 2006 | | |
For more than four thousand years, the deep green of a flawless emerald has been treasured around the world as a symbol of eternal spring and immortality. The stone has been prized by the Egyptians, the Romans - Emperor Nero surveyed the gladiators through an emerald monocle - the Moguls of India, the Aztecs, and the crowned heads of Europe, among others.
In the first of a series on gemstones Claudia Hammond looks at emeralds with Jack Ogden from the Gemological Association of Great Britain and Victoria Finlay, author of “Buried Treasure”. | |
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