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This document provides an overview of the historical literature on the talismanic and medical uses of gems from ancient times through the Renaissance. It discusses how ancient cultures like Egypt, Assyria, and Greece attributed magical powers to gems and used them as amulets and in medicines. The earliest known "Lapidary," a genre documenting stones and their properties, was written by Theophrastus in the 4th century BC. Pliny the Elder

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Bogdan Honciuc

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