This first fossil of a rare and never before studied species of gnat, Robsonomyia henningseni, was found in a piece of Baltic amber along Denmark's North Sea coast in the 1960's. For decades ...

Some of it fell off the trees, fossilised, and made it to our times as amber. This relic of the Scandinavian forest made it to the shores of the Baltic sea – on the beaches, where it is thrown out by ...

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 ...

I could appreciate the simplicity of unpacking once and seeing a slew of countries by sea and comfortable air ... I embarked on this Baltic cruise from Sweden to Copenhagen with my mom to explore ...