Lapis Lazuli is known as a stone of wisdom, intuition and truth. It has endless connections to ancient cultures/civilizations across time and space.
Italy: Ground and processed into powder, it produced the intense, but expensive, ultramarine color favored by the painter, Michelangelo.
Japan: Buddhists recommended Lapis as a stone to bring inner peace and freedom from negative thought
England: During the Renaissance, Catherine the Great adorned an entire room in her palace with Lapis Lazuli walls, fireplaces, doors, and mirror frames.
Egypt: The golden sarcophagus of King Tutankhamen was richly inlaid with Lapis, as were other burial ornaments of Egyptian kings and queens. It was used extensively in scarabs, pendants, and other jewelry, and ground into powder for dyes, eye shadow, and medicinal elixirs.
