Amber

Amber is fossil resin produced by pine trees which grew in Northern Europe about 50 million years ago. The resin was washed out of the forest floor by large rivers and transported south towards the sea. In the course of time the resin was transformed to amber due to processes of polymerization and oxidation.
Formation
Amber truly possesses a life-giving energy. It takes its beginning in luxuriant forests as old as the mother earth itself. Later waters and masses of ground fell on them. However the treasures of those times survived preserved in it, therefore amber contains joy and happiness. From ancient times people living in the territory of our motherland used to dug amber out if its burying places and enrich it with something from their own lives. They would inscribe pieces of amber with their feelings along with nice wishes, put them on strings, and give as gifts to their beloved ones so that they could accompany them in this or another life.
50 million years ago
If you ask any Lithuanian about the origin of Baltic amber, most probably you will hear a legend of an unhappy love between queen Jurate and fisherman Kastytis. God Perkunas, after finding out that the mortal son of earth dared to touch the Queen of the Baltic’s, threw down a bolt of lightning, which shattered the amber palace on the bottom of the sea and drowned Kastytis together with his boat. Ever since waves have been washing ashore pieces of amber – fragments of the palace and after storms the shore is strewn smaller pieces – Jurate’s tears.
In this region of Baltic sea approximately 90% of all amber (fossil resins) in the world are found.