Not only did I wear a rock n' roll iconic band t-shirt Van Halen, but I also wore rockin' necklace. No really, the necklace feature rock gems, called Lapis Lazuli. Lapis Lazuli Lapis is latin for stone , and from the Arabic, azul, means blue . Pretty straight forward. I am wearing "blue rocks", which it actually is, rather than, what most people think is it's a mineral. It IS composed of various minerals: lazurite, pyrite and calcite, but it's still just a rock. The best Lapis Lazuli is uniformly deep blue in color, being opaque to semi-translucent and consist almost totally of lazurite. It was extracted from mines around Lake Baikal and in Afghanistan since about the year 6000 BC. British scientists who discovered the tomb of King Tut in 1920 found that it was decorated with lapis lazuli. Lapis Lazuli was revered in both Egypt and Babylonia and was believed to be a cure for melancholy. The Romans believed that lapis was also a po...