Amber

Yep.

Next we have Amber, which everyone's probably familiar with thanks to Jurassic Park.

But this is literally when sap from a tree is going to trap things in that sap.

And that tree sap basically hardens and gets preserved over time.

By 1945, as the Soviet Red Army pounded Germany into rubble, the trail went ice cold.

The Amber Room completely disappeared.

Did it burn in the fires of a besieged castle? Is it buried deep inside a secret Nazi mine? Or does it sit inside a forgotten bunker, waiting to be found? Welcome back to the Time and Tales podcast, dark history, strange lore, one tale at a time.

I'm Lynnae.

Hey, I'm CJ.

Today we're going to dive headfirst into history's most grueling high stakes treasure hunt.

We are tracking the blood, the greed, and the catastrophic loss of the Amber Room.

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This podcast series is based on my observations and experience with some history and comparisons with my home country of England on aspects of life in Latvia and things to see and experience.

On Amber Sunstone on my wrist I'm wearing a piece of amber right now.

It's set in a string bracelet, the size of a thumbnail, honey-coloured and unpolished.

If I hold it up to the light, I can just make out a tiny fleck trapped inside it, a piece of plant matter, maybe, or a fragment of bark.

And how to buy the real thing without getting stung.

A story about Baltic gold.

The Origins of Amber There was a big storm in Latvia at the weekend, and I'm walking along the beach at Mezirbe.

I ask myself, what actually is amber, and how was it formed? Amber isn't a mineral or a gemstone in the traditional sense, as it has no crystalline structure.