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Why Amber? Once upon a time, sometime between 140 and 65 millions years ago, somewhere on the coast of what we now know as the Baltic Sea, a small drop of tree resin rolled down the trunk of a gigantic, prehistoric tree. The immense rainfall washed it down to the river. With its waters, the resin tear
traveled to the shore and settled at the bottom of an ancient lagoon. As time progressed, the resin fossilized. Although hardened, in fact, its structure survived until present times in almost unchanged form as a warm golden gem known as amber. Although translucent deep yellow
form is most common, amber can be found in many colors, from almost black, through green, to rare opaque white and ivory. Occasionally seeds, leaves, feathers, insects, and fish scales embedded in a resin for millions of years are visible. Amber jewelry has been crafted for at least 13,000 years. Around 1600 BC amber became treasured in Greece, and Homer in the Odyssey wrote about amber as of the most precious material. Greeks called amber “elektron” meaning derived from the Sun and believed that amber was made from tears of a nymph. Because Greeks first observed and recorded the electrostatic properties of amber, centuries
