Amber is moved from northern Europe to…
1341 BCE to 1198 BCE
Amber is moved from northern Europe to the Mediterranean area from at least the sixteenth century BCE.
The breast ornament of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen, who reigned in around 1333 BCE to 1324 BCE) contains large Baltic amber beads.
The quantity of amber in the Royal Tomb of Qatna, Syria, is unparalleled for known sites of the second millennium BCE in the Levant and the Ancient Near East.The Baltic amber trade, which appears to have extended to the Mediterranean Sea, has been traced by archaeologists back to the Nordic Bronze Age; its major center is located in the region of Sambia.
This trade probably existed prior to the historical Trojan War in the thirteenth century BCE, as amber is one of the substances in which the palace of Menelaus at Sparta was said to be rich in Homer's The Iliad.
Heinrich Schliemann will find Baltic amber beads at Mycenae, as shown by spectroscopic investigation.
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