An amber cup from the Bronze Age was found in southern England. It was a part of a grave (from the Bronze Age, i.e. around 1500 B.C.) discovered in 1856 in Hove, East Sussex.

Bursztynowa filiżanka z epoki brązu została znaleziona w południowej Anglii. Stanowiła ona element zawartości grobu (z epoki brązu, czyli około 1500 r. p.n.e.) odkrytego w 1856 r. w Hove w hrabstwie East Sussex.

Pliny the Elder in his Historia Naturalis presented a more realistic origin of amber. He believed that amber has its origins in a pine tree growing on the islands of the North Ocean, and to be more precise, from the juices of those trees.

The head of the tiniest dinosaur which lived 100 million years ago has been discovered in amber. Amber was found in Myanmar, Burma. The results of the research have been published in “Nature” magazine.

Baltic Amber (succinite) is fossil resin, dated back to 40 million years ago. According to research conducted in the XIX century, it was produced by the tree Pinus succinifera. It is not the only resin which preserved until today.