Europeans into the middle ages
To any Roman or Greek of 400 CE, to have jewellery with deep red garnets showed you had arrived. These stones first arrived in Europe about this time, coming all the way from Sri Lanka along the trade routes up the Red Sea.
The same route that the Justinian Plague followed, which decimated the cities in its path.
A good article on gold and garnet jewellery here:
hefenfelth.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/follow-the-garnets/
The same route that the Justinian Plague followed, which decimated the cities in its path.
A good article on gold and garnet jewellery here:
hefenfelth.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/follow-the-garnets/
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