Rose Quartz Meaning and Healing Properties Rose quartz has been used in love rituals and ceremonies for centuries, and remains the stone of the hopeless romantic. A member of the quartz family, this crystal is made up of silicon dioxide.
The Assyrians. (1170 - 612 BCE) The Assyrians were Semitic people living in the northern reaches of Mesopotamia; they have a long history in the area, but for most of that history they are subjugated to the more powerful kingdoms and peoples to the south.
One of the challenges for modern Assyrians, claiming to have always known they survived since the fall of the Assyrian empire, was to explain how it was that, for all those centuries, the Nestorians referred to themselves as Syrians (Suryaye/Arameans) and never Assyrians, until the 19th century.