Physical attributes of most amber

• Hardness: 2.0 - 2.5 (Mohs scale)
• Refractive index: 1.5 - 1.6
• Specific gravity: 1.06 - 1.10
• Melting point: 250–300°C. If the amber is heated above 200 °C, it will slowly break down. It will secrete an oil and leave behind a black residue known as "amber colophony". When this is dissolved in turpentine oil or in linseed oil, it forms "amber varnish". If the amber is pressed together under high temperatures and pressure, you can create the product "pressed amber". Small pieces of amber that merge and form larger pieces of amber - read more about this in the section forgeries and imitations

Amber - this almost magical material acts as a past message in a bottle sent into the future and has preserved and maintained moments of the past in 3D. Unlike many other fossilizing processes, amber retains its inclusions extremely well-preserved, and by virtue of the amber retaining even the smallest inclusions, man can study the world in amber, travel back in time, and study the past almost as if we ourselves walked in the endless forest of the past. Amber and its importance to the understanding of life and the evolution of the earth is deeply underestimated by the general public.

There are over 150 different types of amber in the world, and each type acts as a portal back in time. That means that the last approx. 135 million years of the earth's history is to a greater or lesser extent archived in the amber (the oldest amber whit inclusions in the world is from Lebanon and Jordan and is roughly 125–135 million years old). Through this website you will be able to go on a time trip and with your own eyes see how life looked millions of years ago.