Due to the previous interest in Maya jade, Leonard Ethan conducted a large amount of private research and thoroughly understood various knowledge about Central American jade through this information.
According to the current classification, the quality of Guatemalan jade is obviously inferior to that of Burmese jade. However, the quality is inferior to Burmese jade, but they are indeed genuine jade.
More importantly, this jade is indeed the oldest known jade, and it began to be used not 1000 years ago as Leonard Ethan remembered, but from more than a thousand years BC.
In the era of the Maya, jade products were an indispensable offering in the worship of the Sun God and were once a sacred cure for incurable diseases.
At that time, the ancient Maya regarded jade as a symbol of health and status. The jade ornaments, made by local jewelers, were used in religious and temple rituals and could only be enjoyed by clan leaders and priests.
