Amber

Amber Road :: Jordan, Brandon, and Hunter

By hhereford
  • 100

    Pharaohs

    Baltic amber was found in Tet pyramid, in graves of pharaohs (3400-2400 BC).
  • 500

    Myans

    An archaeologist found Baltic amber when digging Mycenaean domed graves which were poured in about 1600-800 BC
  • Oct 9, 600

    Trading Early

    In the 1st – 3rd centuries intense amber trade was with Roman Empire and its colonies which gave the trade route the name "Amber Road". Amber Road is a land trading road, which used to connect Roman Empire with Baltic region in old Iron-age. Later, when barbarians began to attack Rome land roads, it became unsafe and trading was disturbed. More stable roads were by the Baltic Sea. It was considered gold to the countries calling it "Northern Gold".
  • Oct 9, 700

    Expansion of the amber road

    At the end of the 3rd century trading roads flourished to the East along Dnieper, Dnester, Prut Rivers, also they get affiliated with Slavic tribes, Roman colonies near the Black Sea, later with Byzantine Empire and Arabic countries as well
  • Oct 9, 1200

    Amber reaches a hold

    In the 12th century, amber extraction, treatment and trading were monopolized by crusaders. In 1264, A Teutonic Order got all the lands full of amber to give the third of gathered amber to the bishop. Local people who used to gather and sell amber for many years lost their right to do that. According to regalia of the Order, all the gathered amber had to be given to appropriate servants, and it was cruelly punished for hiding a single piece of it! In the 1800's they would chop off your head!

  • Large amber excavation

    In 1867, in Sambian peninsula there was a barrel of 50 litres full of amber.

  • Beads

    Archeologists found over 400 amber beads in Troy, an area near Turkey, in 1871-1890

  • Another amber excavation

    In 1900, near Gdansk there was pot of clay with 9 kg of amber excavated.

  • Another another amber excavation

    In 1924, in Eastern Prussia near Leižūnai, not far from the Curonian Lagoon there were three hundredweights of raw amber material found. Amber was VERY popular!

  • More amber trade

    At the end of the 8th century lots of silver Arabic money (dirham) came to Europe for amber after the spread of trade between Europe and Arabia.