Amber has been found on all continents except Antarctica, so from the coldest regions in Canada and Siberia to the warmest areas around the equator, amber is found today - in total there are well over 150 different types of amber. All types have great scientific value but only a few types have achieved economic value in the trading market. In addition to the types' very different color shades, they differ primarily from each other based on their location and age - each type is its own window to a specific period of the earth's past, which we can travel back to and see life as if time had never passed.

The oldest amber in the world originates from the USA,… and has an age of 320 million years, the oldest amber found with inclusions (a fly and two mites) originates from the Alps in northern Italy and has an age of 235- 231 million years and the oldest amber that has been found, where due to the frequency of the inclusions it has also been possible to gain a detailed insight into the forest's biodiversity is Jordanian and Lebanese amber, which has an age of 135 million years. This amber is unfortunately difficult to access due to minefields and political instability in the region. From 135 million years ago, there are more and more different types of amber and the largest occurrence of all types is the Baltic amber (34-48 million years old), which is also the type we find in Denmark. It is said that well over 80% of all the amber known in the world is Baltic amber. One of the youngest types of amber is Dominican amber with an age of about 20-24 million years.

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