Lapis Lazuli ore can be found exclusively in the Overworld, in between depths of Y level 30 and Y level 0. It is rarely exposed, thereby making it harder to find.

“ Pure blue. It's not blue-green. It's not blue-gray. It's just the most pure color of blue.” Somewhere in a box in her office Julie Abouzelof has a pile of pure blue lapis lazuli.

A bit of lapis lazuli — a rich blue pigment — is trapped within a central tooth's dental tartar on this lower jaw of a European woman who died sometime between A.D. 997 and 1162.

The lapis lazuli particles were also especially fine, which requires a laborious grinding process. This detail in particular suggests that the stones were purposefully made into pigment.

History’s blue Watch fans love a good backstory, and few naturally occurring materials have a better one than lapis lazuli. Each dial has a distinct texture because of the pyrite veins in the lapis ...