Its value is also found in its cultural significance, as it’s more commonly used around East and South Asia, as well as in ...

from an ancient deposit in Guatemala — much of it blue-green, but some virtually indistinguishable from the imperial jade of Myanmar, said Richard W. Hughes, a co-owner of Lotus Gemology in ...

Scientific expeditions and treasure hunters, known informally among themselves as jadeistas or jade-raiders, have scoured Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Costa Rica searching for the source of the ...

For half a century, scholars have searched in vain for the source of the jade that the early civilizations of the Americas prized above all else and fashioned into precious objects of worship ...

Deep within the cloud forests of northeastern Guatemala lies a deep vein of translucent blue jade, the most prized treasure of the Mayans. A trek into the Motagua Valley, where most of the rare ...

Authorities have uncovered that an eastern coastal region of Guatemala, known to be a cocaine corridor, has been used in the trafficking of jade — a gemstone used for millennia by the ancient Mayans ...