The fancy-vivid-yellow polished stone, called the New Sun, has a rich honey-golden color, Alrosa said last week. It created the stone from a 236-carat rough, named Dawn, which the miner found in 2020 ...

Elaborately painted tiles, called azulejos ... azulejo (derived from the Arabic al-azulayj meaning "small polished stone") came into use. By the late 1400s, the tides had turned.