Stylish Your Birth Stone Jewellery Turquoise Necklace.
Other notable localities include: Afghanistan; Australia (Victoria and Queensland); north India; northern Chile (Chuquicamata); Cornwall; Saxony; Silesia; and Turkestan.
Trade in turquoise crafts, such as this freeform pendant dating from 1000–1040, is believed to have brought the Ancestral Puebloans of the Chaco Canyon great wealth.
Moche turquoise nose ornament. Larco Museum Collection, Lima, Peru
Backswords, inlaid with turquoise. Russia, 17th century.
Turquoise mosaic mask of Xiuhtecuhtli, the Aztec god of fire.
The iconic gold burial mask of Tutankhamun, inlaid with turquoise, lapis lazuli, carnelian and coloured glass.
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