Peridot

Types of gemstones is a type of metal olefins. Chemical 

composition of magnesium silicate and iron double Mg, Fe 2SiO4 and the presence of iron, its composition makes it green.
its close to the installation of stone Emerald, found in igneous rocks and the base of limestone, formerly called all the gems of the color green italics zbergd

was known in ancient Egypt, in the pre-dynastic period in the manufacture of beads. Aquamarine and use the yellow when the ancient Egyptians was found a scarabion made ​​of peridot in Egypt and dates back to the time of the Eighteenth Dynasty. He said that chair allocated Prophet Solomon to sit among the people was studded composed of peridot pearls and rubies. Palms and four chair of pure gold each of which made up of the green peridot and ruby ​​red. Peridot was also detected in some meteorites, and mining are the night and the island full of snakes which made peridot mining a dangerous profession until at tel come faroon king and tack all the snakes into the sea has made ​​the ancient Egyptians decades of Aquamarine about 1580-1350 BC.