Each month has at least one gemstone; while some have multiple. Here's a guide to January's stone, including its namesake, history and more. Garnet is January's birthstone. Its name derives from ...

Two recently discovered ancient gold rings set with garnets reveal how Greek trends and customs became part of life in ...

Just as many-faceted as the birthstones themselves, though, are the origins of their names. A great many of them came into ...

Metal detectorists in southwest England unearthed the two gold-and-garnet objects from the Anglo-Saxon period in January.

Garnets have been a highly collectible gemstone since prehistoric times, and Arizona is renowned for hosting some of the best specimens. These gemstones are formed as a result of a combination of ...

Credit: Eliyahu Yanai, City of David Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a 2,300-year-old gold ring set with a red gemstone — likely a garnet — that a youngster may have ritually buried as they ...

In the City of David archaeological park, a small gold ring dating back to Jerusalem in the Second Temple period was ...