Ancient amber beads found in Syria kept in museum for decades. They were ‘invaluable’
Nearly a century ago, Danish archaeologists traveled to the site of the ancient city of Hama, a region that was occupied for close to 8,000 years. Hama, now in modern-day Syria, was first occupied ...
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The Largest Amber Preserved Flower Is Roughly 40-Million-Years-Old, And It's Not A Species That Exists Today
The fossil was created when some sticky sap trickled out of a conifer tree near the Baltic Sea, coating the flower and solidifying it into amber over time. It is very uncommon to see plants ...
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Iron Age beads found in Syria were created from Baltic amber from over 3000 kilometers away
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 ...