Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Until recently, I only thought of carnelian as the stone in the Hellenistic relics at the Metropolitan ...
A translucent orange gem engraved with an image of a goddess of hunting has been found near a mausoleum built by Herod the Great, the king of Judea who ruled not long before the time of Jesus. The ...