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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amber -- sticky tree resin that hardens and preserves what's inside -- is a window into ancient times. Sometimes it's art, too. A flower trapped in Baltic amber is a stunner for both its size and ...

The preserved flower, encased in amber from the Baltic forests of northern Europe, dates from almost 40 million years ago and is thought to be from an ancient flowering evergreen plant originally ...