One of the hottest trends in fashion this year is designer handcrafted Turquoise jewelry. Turquoise jewelry has become a popular accessory in today's fashions. Quality Turquoise jewelry is timeless and can be worn for years and passed down from generation to generation. At K R Jewellers, we only promote the finest quality at the best possible price. Turquoise is one of the oldest known gem materials. The world's oldest turquoise mines are on the Sinai Peninsula. Beads in prehistoric graves show Egyptian kings were wearing turquoise as early as 5500 BC. For two thousand years they sent huge, annual mining expeditions to Sinai. Two to three thousand laborers, plus a military escort, might bring back almost 900 pounds in a good year. Modern attempts to revive these mines have all failed. Many cultures have valued turquoise and assigned spiritual meanings to its color. Native Americans, for example, saw turquoise as a sign of divinity and power because it stole its color from the sky and sea. The Hopi still worship a god of turquoise and embed the stone into the beams and posts of their places of worship. The blue was thought to have powerful metaphysical properties too. The Apache believed it helped warriors and hunters to aim accurately. The Zuni believed that turquoise protected them from demons. In Asia, it was considered protection against the evil eye. Ancient manuscripts from Persia, India, Afghanistan, and Arabia report that the health of a person wearing turquoise can be assessed by variations in the color of the stone. Turquoise was also thought to promote prosperity.