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# If the Wizard of the Emerald City Had Not Been a Charlatan
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/esli-by-volshebnik-izumrudnogo-goroda-ne-byl-sharlatanom/
- Published: 2026-02-22T17:43:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:26:54.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: The East, Art, Museums, Humour

"The Gates of Paradise" is an exceptionally rare pair of Indian spectacles of the seventeenth-century Mughal era, whose lenses are carved not from glass but from a single enormous emerald, probably weighing more than 300 carats in its uncut state