I was in Poland's capital city attending a trade show called “Gold Silver and Time” but one cannot discuss the Polish jewelry industry without including Baltic amber, the prehistoric tree ...

Baltic amber is also considered the highest quality ... HUMANS HAVE USED AMBER IN JEWELRY SINCE AT LEAST 11,000 BCE. Amber which was polished and carved to make jewelry or decorations dating ...

For many thousands of years, the fossilized tree resin known as amber has entranced jewelry makers and inspired ... from a superbly preserved specimen in Baltic amber. It is the oldest gekkonid ...

Baltic amber has also been found at Mycenae in Greece ... Other items on display include amber household items and jewelry. Inside the Amber Museum in Gdansk. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of ...

In the 17th century artisans perfected methods for crafting amber into jewelry and decorative objects ... 11 days exploring the shipwreck on the Baltic floor. “We did not find the treasure ...

Iron Age amber beads from the Baltic Sea found in Syria. Credit: M. N. Mortensen et al. / National Museum of Denmark A recent analysis of beads discovered in the ancient city of Hama, Syria, has ...

Almost 40 million years ago a flower bloomed in a Baltic conifer forest ... Scientists have taken a fresh look at the unique amber fossil, which was first documented in 1872 as belonging to ...