Information about opal jewelry

Australianopaldirect09 Oct, 2022Business

The oldest known artefacts of opal jewelry discovered in a cave in Kenya by the famous anthropologist Louis Leakey are said to date back to about 4000 BC and most likely came from Ethiopia. History shows that the discovery and cultivation of the opal stone was important to the prestige and power of several ancient civilizations. As early humans continued to uncover various new and rare gems from the caves and crevices in which they had been stored hundreds of years ago, they soon learned how to work them into decorative shapes. Once the craft of shaping opal jewelry was mastered, these mysteriously glowing gems were sold for a fortune and revered as a symbol of great power and wealth.