Courtesy of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences . Chinese and Thai archaeologists have determined that the ...

The two agate beads, carved into the shapes of a waterbird and a tiger, were found in an intact cultural layer at the Lai Nghi burial site. They are now preserved in the artifact collection of the ...

It was made in the prehistoric period, an ancient bead 15cm long, tubular and consisting of black-and-white agate and orange carnelian rock. It was broken in two and buried, separately, with two ...

Prayers beads hang waiting to be sold as Shia Muslim pilgrims arrive to take part in a religious ritual in the shrine city of Karbala, southwest of Iraq's capital Baghdad, on Jan. 2. Agate-based ...

Doctors say the 50-year-old is dying of silicosis, a wasting lung disease that he contracted inhaling deadly silica dust as a grinder of agates — colorful, semi-precious stones exported to the United ...

Buyers select Nanhong agate stones in Xichang Nanhong agate market, Sichuan Province, in 2013. Photo: CFP The small hill in Meigu county, Southwest China's Sichuan Province is pitted with dozens of ...