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Thursday, March 3, 2016

Amber is fossilized tree resin (not sap), which has been known to be used in jewellery since Neolithic times. Amber is 100 to 120 million years old. Fossilized tree resin that is younger than that is called copal and can be sometimes sold as amber, even though it is not qualified for that. 

An ant inside Baltic amber

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