The rich colors of emerald are bluish green to green.

Over 4,000 years ago, most of the ancient emerald jewelry came from the Cleopatra mines in Egypt.

The Atocha Emerald Cross came from a sunken Spanish warship called Nuestra Senora de Atocha.

Robert Weldon, Courtesy of Eileen Weatherbee

(noun) This name comes from the very old Greek word smaragdus, which means green.