Crystal Gifts: A Surprising Variety
Crystal is one of the most beautiful materials ever thought up by man. Those who cherish the finer things of life owe a debt of gratitude to the first person who believed that molten sand could ever create something so fine. Glassmaking is actually a centuries old art. The Mesopotamians were creating glass, by the third millennium BC and the Egyptians in the second millennium. It was, however, quite precious, considered to be on par with gold.
