Lapis lazuli earrings - - crafts made in italy - rhodium silver 925 -- mm -30 --- Lapis lazuli was being mined in the Sar-i Sang mines[1] and in other mines in the Badakhshan province in northeast Afghanistan as early as the7th millennium BC,[2] Lapis beads have been found at neolithic burials in Mehrgarh, the Caucasus, and even as far from Afghanistan asMauritania.[3] It was used for the eyebrows on the funeral mask of King Tutankhamun .