Precious stone : All the best free flash games relating to precious stone

Only four types of stones are said to be precious stones. These are the diamond, the ruby, the emerald and the sapphire. Diamond's color is transparent, pale-blue to white. Ruby's color is transparent, pale red to scarlet. Emerald's color is transparent, and dark green. Finally, sapphire's color varies from pale-blue to medium blue.

During Ancient Egypt, precious stones had meaning and were related to gods and goddesses. For instance, the ruby was the sacred stone of Sekhmet, goddess of war, because the stone was red as blood.

For all time, precious stones have aroused lust and been an outward sign of wealth. Not everybody can afford them. However, we can notice some sort of an evolution within the society. If, previously, only upper classes could afford buying these stones (as jewels most of the time), nowadays, more affordable prices are charged. Of course, these “affordable prices” are still high and are only applied to small pieces of jewelry, like a little pendant encrusted with a small piece of sapphire. However, as the stone becomes bigger, prices charged are not subject to a proportional, but rather exponential increase.

Anyway, even though the main part of the population will never have sufficient money to afford such great jewels encrusted with precious stones, everyone knows and recognizes their value and beauty.
The biggest precious stone ever found is the Cullinan diamond. The “stone” weighs around 600 grams. Well, now if you want to know the price, bear in mind it's the biggest precious stone ever discover yet... 150.000 pounds at the time of its discovery, that is, one century ago. The equivalent of 238150,67 dollars.