A Polish Treasure Hunt: The Amber Tour in Gdańsk
6 July, 2018
The warm glow of amber has been appreciated by people and used in jewellery since Neolithic times. It has other uses too: as early as the fourth century BC, historians have noted how the tribes around the Baltic Sea made use of the fossilised tree sap for fuel, as a currency of exchange, and to adorn themselves and their clothing. But since its earliest days, the amber trade has been localised on the northern edge of continental Europe. One city
