Creatures Found in Amber

[Castle-Yankee54]

I've been studying the different eras in history. Is Amber always Tree sap? or is it just commonly tree sap? Also, About 400 million years ago the earth was covered in giant mushrooms, Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms | Smart News | Smithsonian

The way I understand it, it is always tree sap......if it is something else it wouldn't be amber. However, there are different type, ages and locations of amber.

 

[Toroid]

Wait is this about Ambergris or Amber? If Ambergris we need to scrap that off those animals. It is a very precious Substance secreted from the Sperm whales Digestive tract and used in perfumes.

Welcome aboard.

 

[Toroid]

The way I understand it, it is always tree sap......if it is something else it wouldn't be amber. However, there are different type, ages and locations of amber.

Amber - Wikipedia

 

[3FEL9]

Did you know That Ambergris can wash up on beaches and become Fossilized or Petrified over time?

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I didnt know... So whales huh ?

 

[Toroid]

Prehistoric humans traded in amber.
Prehistoric humans traded in AMBER! Archaeologists find evidence Stone Age people traded the gem | Daily Mail Online

Across the rest of the Peninsula, however, the amber used in jewellery and other ornaments was found to come from Sicily or the Baltic region.

The team found Sicilian amber arrived in Iberia much earlier than previously thought.

Lead author Dr Mercedes Murillo-Barroso, of the University of Granada, said: ‘The new evidence presented in this study has allowed the most comprehensive review to date on the provision and exchange of amber in the prehistory of Iberia.

‘Thanks to this new work, we now have evidence of the arrival of Sicilian amber in Iberia from at least the 4th Millennium BC.’

Amber has been used in jewellery for tens of thousands of years, with archaeological studies tracing informal exchange networks of amber both as a raw material and in decorative objects in Europe back to the Late Palaeolithic period, between 40,000 and 8,000 BC.

It is often found to hold remarkably well-preserved materials from eras long since passed.

The golden-coloured translucent substance is formed when resin from extinct coniferous trees became hardened and then fossilised.

Often insects, plant material, pollen and other creatures, became trapped in the resin, causing them to be entombed within after it has solidified.

Dr Murillo-Barroso said: ‘Interestingly, the first amber objects recovered in Sicily and identified as being made from the local amber there – known as simetite – also date from the 4th Millennium BC.

 

[Standingstones]

Now if only someone could rediscover the Amber Room.

 

[nivek]

Now if only someone could rediscover the Amber Room.

No doubt, I would love to walk into that room and see the work and beauty of this treasure, if its ever found intact and reintroduced to the world...

 

[Toroid]

Amber Room - Wikipedia

The Amber Room (Russian: Янтарная комната, tr. Yantarnaya Komnata, German: Bernsteinzimmer, Polish: Bursztynowa komnata) is a reconstructed chamber decorated in amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors, located in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg. Constructed in the 18th century in Prussia, the original Amber Room was dismantled and eventually disappeared during World War II. Before its loss, it was considered an "Eighth Wonder of the World". A reconstruction was installed in the Catherine Palace between 1979 and 2003.

The Amber Room was intended in 1701 for the Charlottenburg Palace, in Berlin, Prussia, but was eventually installed at the Berlin City Palace. It was designed by German baroque sculptor Andreas Schlüter and Danish amber craftsman Gottfried Wolfram. Schlüter and Wolfram worked on the room until 1707, when work was continued by amber masters Gottfried Turau and Ernst Schacht from Danzig. It remained in Berlin until 1716, when it was given by the Prussian King Frederick William I to his then ally, Tsar Peter the Great of the Russian Empire. In Russia, the room was expanded, and after several renovations, it covered more than 55 square metres (590 sq ft) and contained over 6 tonnes (13,000 lb) of amber.

The Amber Room was looted during World War II by the Army Group North of Nazi Germany, and brought to Königsberg for reconstruction and display. Its current whereabouts remain a mystery. In 1979, efforts were undertaken to rebuild the Amber Room at Tsarskoye Selo. In 2003, after decades of work by Russian craftsmen and donations from Germany, the reconstructed Amber Room was inaugurated at the Catherine Palace.

 

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the restored amber room.

 

[Toroid]

Awesome images of 45 million year old insects.
Beautiful images reveal ancient insects preserved in amber | Daily Mail Online

 

[Toroid]

Bizarre moment air bubbles float around inside 20 MILLION-year-old amber fossil | Daily Mail Online

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