We believe that Amber has been used in Jewellery for a very long time. Amber has never really been that popular until the release of Jurassic Park in the 90’s. The movie explained how ancient tree sap turned into to Amber over time. Amber jewellery was, all of a sudden, huge! Everyone wanted an Amber necklace, or bracelet.
Amber has been known to trap insects and bugs as it develops over hundreds of years. Amber with insects or bugs within can be very expensive.
Demand is very, very high for amber with insects inside of them. The author of Consumer Guide to Collared Gemstones by David Federman, said "Amber is like a time capsule made and placed in the earth by nature herself. It has helped paleontologists reconstruct life on earth in its primal phases. More than 1,000 extinct species of insects have been identified in amber."

The Baltic sea in Poland and the Dominican Republic are now the two biggest sources of Amber in the world. The Baltic Amber is older than that from the Dominican Republic, therefore it is preferred.
Artefacts made from Amber, dating all the way back to the Stone Age, were found in Germany and Denmark.

It is thought that 1,000,000,000kg of Amber from the Baltic Seas between 1895 - 1900 was used in the production of fine amber jewellery. Amber has been a favourite among many in history including the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Assyrians.

There are many myths surrounding the origin of Amber.
It is said that when Phaeton, a son of Phoebus, the sun, had convinced his father to allow him to drive the chariot of the sun across the sky for just a day, he had driven it too close to the sun, managing to set it on fire. To save earth, Jupiter then struck Phaeton with thunderbolts and killed Phaeton, falling out of the sky. His mother and sister are said to have turned into trees in grief, but still cried mourning him everyday. Their tears were dried by the sun and made amber.

It is said that Odyssey was given Amber jewellery including necklaces, bracelets, earrings and beads as a gift. The Greeks called Amber by two names, the first was Sun-made and the second was Electron. Amber has a natural amount of electricity and can attract little particles. The Romans were also big fans of Amber, which could out price a healthy slave very easily. The Emperor Nero, was said, to be a huge fan of Amber. They infact conquered and took control over many Amber producing countries and areas.
Amber was once burned by the Germans many hundreds of years ago as incense. Amber was used to make rosary beads in the Middle Ages and by around the year 1400, it was illegal in most of Europe, to be found with Amber in is natural raw state.

What Secrets Might Amber Hold?
Could we really find a mosquito that has been trapped within amber, for millions of years, hold real dinosaur DNA?
Well, unfortunately we don’t think that amber is that old. We have been able to date Amber back to a maximum of around 50 million years ago. Dinosaurs had left the earth at around 65 million years ago, when the Cretaceous period was over. 144million years ago was the Jurassic period and a piece of amber found, was dated back to around 120 - 135 million years ago. It is said to have contained a weevil which DNA was able to be extracted from.
Aftim Acre of Lebanon, near Beirut, is said to have a collection of over 700 Amber pieces, all containing insects of some kind e.g. spiders, midges, termites.