The importance if amber in science, culture, and art has long and grand
traditions. Amber is fossil resin. Baltic Amber owes its
exceptional charm to it's fascinating history. This long history spans
the period from when it was sticky resin, dripping in Tertiary forests 40
million years ago, to when it was found a small solid piece on the Baltic
beach. Bulky pieces of Baltic Amber that weigh even more than 3kg,
icicles and other dripstone forms with layer structure, as well as beautiful
drops which sometimes are so small as if they wanted to convince one that
they really are the tears of mythological Heliads are proofs that Tertiary
trees were large and produced great amounts of resin. They were
coniferous trees from the family Pinaceae, resembling such species as
today's Cedrus (Atlas Mountains Cedar), and Larix. Amber yielding
trees grew in the forests across northern Europe. The most extensive
deposits of Baltic Amber can be found in Eoccenian blue mud, in the Sambian
Peninsula and by the Bay of Gdansk.
Today, just like
ages ago, amber is one of the most highly valued and fashionable precious
stones in the world. Amber has been used to create fine artistic
works. Impressive cabinets, chests, chandeliers, and reliquaries,
became furnishings in the mansions of the nobles.
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