Guadeloupe Turquoise Birthstone Bridal Fashion Necklace Earring Gold Jewellery 51

 Guadeloupe Turquoise Birthstone Bridal Fashion Necklace Earring Gold Jewellery.

By Aamir Mannan.

Cutting and grinding turquoise in Nishapur, Iran, 1973

Iran

For at least 2,000 years, Iran, known before as Persia in the West, has remained an important source of turquoise which was named by Iranians initially "pirouzeh" meaning "victory" and later after Arab invasion "firouzeh".[citation needed] In Iranian architecture, the blue turquoise was used to cover the domes of the Iranian palaces because its intense blue colour was also a symbol of heaven on earth.