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Asia Minor, history and legends

The legends are usually just that, stories. However, some legends have more truth than you know. For the ancient Greeks, the legendary Caucasus mountains marked the beginning of the ends of the earth, and a prison Mounting the enemies of Greece. This is said in the tale of the Greek god Prometheus, who spent eternity chained to Mount Caucasus after stole fire from Olympus and giving it to mankind. But contrary to the symbolism of the tale of Prometheus, the mountains of the Caucasus been and still are real.

Rich in silver, the Caucasus mountain range extends over large present-day Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. In time, money in the Caucasus ", electrum, gold and precious stones over rivers gave rise to legends of monsters and heroes. And like all legends, these stories have their symbolism firmly planted in reality. The symbolic hero of a tale as were Jason and his crew of Argonauts who sailed from Greece in their boat the Argo, his name meaning "Shining white metal.

crew included Jason of the Argonauts, Castor and Pollux, brothers of the unfortunate Helen of Troy, and Armenos Armenian first. Their quest was to capture the Golden Fleece, which was the only payment Jason could use to regain his kingdom of his evil uncle Pelias. The Fleece was rumored to hang to an oak near the river phase, south of the Caucasus mountains, in the region of Colchis located along the eastern coast of the Black Sea. Jason adventures thank you to the infamous gods and monsters in search of riches and gold money is a fascinating story, but it is only a window on a truth Even more fascinating behind the legend.

Around 9500-9000 BC the world's climate has changed, the heating and signage the end of the last glacial period. "This marked the beginning of the Neolithic period and the increase, although the evolution at different times around the world, organized communities. Neolithic communities of domestic livestock, irrigated land, and metallurgical processes learned from refining the iron, copper, electrum, gold and silver weapons, ornaments and jewelry.

Thanks archeology, it has been possible to document the birthplace of the first really organized extends over Neolithic civilizations area of Anatolia in western Turkey to the Persian Gulf in the south and east, and the outer ridge extending over the fertile mountains of the Caucasus north. Indeed, much of gold, silver, electrum, tin and copper used in ancient rings, earrings, pendants and bracelets found throughout this region have been attributed to alluvial rivers and streams running through the Caucasus Mountains.

For most of the time during the metals used for jewelry were taken from alluvial deposits, which is where the silt-laden water Rain collects in rivers and streams after flowing over the rocks and erosion of surrounding hills and mountains. Most methods research on precious metals for jewelry depended on the human eye to select the particles of gold and silver, but because the particles Silver and gold were very small, they are often washed away. Another method of extracting precious metals from these deposits was found using the fleece of a sheep.

This was done by paying money, gold and electrum bearing gravel on the fleece of wool. The lighter sand and rock particles carried on the wool, but the heaviest of precious metal particles fell into the fibers wool stick to lanolin, a natural oil that covers the wool. Gold and silver on the fleece was then hung on a branch and left dry in the sun, after which he was burned in a fire at high temperature. The particles of silver, gold and electrum melted down at the bottom of the fire and after the fire was burning metals have been separated from its ashes.

This method was so successful it was used until 1930 to extract silver, gold and electrum Paktolas River in Anatolia, famous for the treasures of King Midas and jewelry worlds first minting coins used Currency in circulation: the Lydian Trite.

Read the story silver jewelry became Part III - The Legend Trite Lydian

Read history silver jewelry became Legend Part I - King Midas

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