The History of Baltic Amber

The 40 Million year history of mankind's oldest gem and the story of St Petersburg's famous amber room

[MrsPaulaTorres]

...I am of the Baltic Sea. My Mother North, My Father Thunder. Amber soul of mine, and dark skies that wonder...

Dzintars in Latvian. It is a mans name too. Dzintars. 📿 💛

[himalayanprinces]

I been doing amber business since I was little boy in Tibet, and I love amber very much just because of its smell and most beautiful different colors, sharpe and size. Amber is the most smoothy and softest gemstone on the earth. I been most of Baltic Sea areas, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, and Western Germany. We Tibetans have been using amber as jewelry so far I know since 8th century which means around 12000 years now.
And Nowadays amber is fashion in Chinese market last few decades.

[jmash]

This was at once fascinating and so informative. Excellent narration, too!

[nebojsabobic]

So, I went to the Baltic sea with family recently.Have no idea how amber took my atention.I did not see any or buy I do not know.But it interested me till the point I reasearched about it on net.This is the most precise info about it I have found!!It answers on so so much questions about amber!And this search for info on amber has lead me to a very DIRTY and DARK waters...Reality of Baltic sea today is tragic.Do to agriculture, pesticides, ww 2 chemical weapons trown in the sea after war.Some estemations say that 40 000 tons of toxic material is in Baltic, in barels, that are rusting away and release it's content in the sea.Also amber is exploated on so massive scale that gread makes people do crazy things to get it.Digging in forests, destroying ecosistem and so on...And for what?To be sold to rich chinese people who got rich on destroying nature and exploiting people, animals, nature by mass production of most of products used today all over the world.Baltic is septic pool. animal waste from ever growing farms that produce catle find their way to the sea and kiling it.This globalization....

[Wendyfor]

I had the pleasure to go to Lithuania in 2017 . I visited the Baltic Sea rainy and all. I went in a Amber jewelry store. The Amber was beautiful but I could not afford anything and you was not allowed to take pictures. Since then I been interested in Amber.

[lynnierodgers]

I love amber and I found this very interesting so thank you for sharing this information x

[yousefalali]

Thank you very much, it is the most useful video about amber on YouTube. ❤👍😃

[websurfer]

This was delightfully informative. Thank you. 🌲🌊🏵🌅🏵🌊🌲

[deogracias]

Excellent and informative. Much thanks!

[missmerrily]

Really interesting and useful. Thank you!

[hycinth]

Wow, so much information! Thank you for sharing. Super informative 😊

[KarlDMarx]

Probably the longest piece of advertising I have ever watched. It's also the most informative.

[gypsygirlnz]

I am an Amber/Kauri gum lover and collector ... I found this facinating... Thanks for sharing this...

[matthewporter]

Really enjoyed that - Many thanks - Can we credit the narrator? I can't see his name? Very interesting!

[bobwat]

You can not convince me the thumbnail is not beaded corn kernels.

[leclyde]

awsome knowledge, merci de partagé votre savoir, j`apprécie beaucoup

[milanpracek]

What.... the Amber room was sent to Königsberg for ''safekeeping''...first you plunder and then you keep the plundered goods safe from owner. Ja right.

[simonphoenix]

wait what... how could amber ever be worth two hundred times as much as gold, weight for weight... what's the source for that? THat makes as much sense as the common myth that salt was as valuable as gold in some places. Unless amber is as light as cotton, there is no way for that to be true. Gold was always valuable, and amber would have been much easier to get a hold of to the Romans. They had the French and British coastlines after all. I can see a piece of amber carved by a skilled artisan to be worth as much a lot, but not just raw amber.

[hishighness]

Thank you
Do you how to get more information about the german amber beads?

[DrN]

1- Amber is 10% denser than water so it doesn't float.
2- ēlektron must've been mistaken for whale's amber hence named so, unless if it happened to be called amber up north before getting in contact with the Romans.