Iron Age amber beads from the Baltic Sea found in Syria. Credit: M. N. Mortensen et al. / National Museum of Denmark A recent analysis of beads discovered in the ancient city of Hama, Syria, has ...

Nearly a century ago, Danish archaeologists traveled to the site of the ancient city of Hama, a region that was occupied for close to 8,000 years. Hama, now in modern-day Syria, was first occupied ...

“Amber is a gemstone mostly coming from the region around the Baltic Sea. It has a cultural significance in the GCC region specially when it comes to Islamic prayer beads since ancient times ...

For centuries, people in Baltic ... amber pebbles that could be extracted with solvents," McDermott explains. He used a tabletop jar rolling mill, in which the jar is filled with ceramic beads ...

being used as prayer beads in Chinese Buddhism. The Greeks, meanwhile, believed that amber represented the tears of the sun god Apollo, fallen into the sea and washed ashore. In the Baltic region ...

Baltic amber was used for a lion-shaped cup from that time previously discovered in Syria and for beads and scarabs found in Egyptian King Tutankhamen’s tomb, Varberg says. In addition ...

WASHINGTON, April 5, 2021 -- For centuries, people in Baltic nations have used ancient ... in which the jar is filled with ceramic beads and amber pebbles and rotated on its side.