Have you ever thought about what a Stone Age status symbol looked like? On the forested western shore of Lake Onega, one of Europe’s largest freshwater lakes, archaeologists have uncovered a ...

The "fancy grave goods" confirmed what they had already suspected thanks to the horse - it was a high status burial. These ...

Rostec's Kaliningrad Amber Plant has set a new record for the world's largest sunstone deposit. The figure of 600 tons was the highest in the history of the development of the Primorsky quarry. The ...

Bronze Age Spain was a dicey place to buy jewelry. At this time, trade networks that spanned all of Europe carried valuable raw materials across the continent. One of these materials was amber, or ...

At Fröjel, a Viking Age site on the west coast of Gotland, archaeologists search for evidence of a workshop that included a silver-smelting operation.(Daniel Weiss ...

Amber, or succinite as a mineralogist might call it, hails from simple beginnings. It is simply fossilized tree sap. For something so humble, it has managed to captivate the human imagination for ...

When you think of ancient Vikings, the first thing that pops into your mind is probably not jewelry, right? The picture that forms in the mind of most people is one of savages with long sharp spears, ...

The inclusions are so faint in the unpolished amber that Goethe, despite his interest in observing nature, likely never realized he had insects preserved inside what amount to biological time capsules ...