Silver - white metal, moonlight color.

Silver - white metal, moonlight color. He is very malleable, plastic, malleable. For softness and advantages of silver jewelry worth between gold and copper. Even in ancient Egypt and China this metal enjoyed great popularity among the jewelers. Of silver made jewelry, hammered coins, used it to manufacture mirrors. Even then people knew that the water poured into a silver vessel may be a few months and not protuhnet. Silver began to produce more in the third millennium BC in Asia Minor. In the first millennium BC, began a large-scale development of silver in Greece. In the mid-century, were discovered silver mines in Spain, Bohemia, and Transylvania in the 16-18 centuries Center serebrodobychi moved to Mexico, Bolivia and Peru. Silver is extremely rare in pure form. Al-Biruni mentions the nuggets the size of a recumbent camel. Two nuggets of about this magnitude have been found in Asia Minor in the second millennium BC. One of the rulers of ancient Egypt, for oiisaniyu who lived at the time of the chronicler, knew a special way of extending human life. He knew the way to the transition of the human soul from one body to another. All this had to happen in a huge silver vessel. Pharaoh ordered his servants after his death, cut into pieces the body of the deceased and the body of a young boy. Part of the two corpses lay in a silver vessel and leave uncovered. After two weeks of it should go a little boy. Under the will of Pharaoh, this boy should take the throne and ruled Egypt. But the servants did not fulfill orders to his master and buried his remains. So Pharaoh took his secret to the grave.