Amber Road

The Amber Road was a trade route from the delta of the Vistula river to Olbia? at the Black Sea before the birth of Christ. For thousands of years amber was transported overland on rivers from the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts to Italy, Greece, Black Sea and Egypt. The Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun had Baltic amber among his burial goods. From the Black Sea you could continue to Asia on the [Silk Road]?, another ancient trade route.

Truso on the Baltic was one of the main trading places; Truso was near the later city of Elbing at the Drausensee? lake.

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