The human race has a very long history of wearing and working with crystals. Historians and archaeologists have even traced the use of crystals and healing and beauty rituals. Back to the earliest civilizations. The earliest civilization that we have evidence of using crystals was in 4000 BC, which was the ancient Sumerians, and they used crystals in their magic, their alchemy and other formulas. If we go a little more further into the timeline, we're going to see crystal use in ancient Egypt and ancient Egyptian Egyptians used crystals in their jewelry, the amulets and for burying, burying royalty. lapis lazuli is a very sought after and really Royals stone that was around in the ancient Egyptians.

And when we look at the Renaissance period, as well as the Middle Ages, which was between the 11th and 16th century, crystals were used alongside herbal remedies for healing. And you know, each society throughout history has contributed really unique stories to the world related to the use of stones from India to the Americas. We can find examples of the interest in and the application of crystals throughout literature and science and culture and myth. So, as we go deeper into the timeline of crystal healing, we're going to see the full of crystal healing around the age of 1609 when a man named Thomas Nichols suggested that minerals can't hold any healing properties And with his expertise in science, this really kind of crushed the whole crystal healing empire that was building at that time. It wasn't until the 1970s in the hippy days and the in the New Age wave that we saw a, the crystal healing starting to resurface.

And now it's becoming a much more respected alternative healing modality. And this is why you're listening to this course right now. So really, that's a very brief history of crystal healing, but crystal healing goes way back again. We have seen it in ancient Egypt in Greece in Aztec. We have seen it in you know, American history with the Native Americans and now it's becoming a much more popular and much more sought after healing modality