Amber ship - an extraordinary work from Etruria

Our national treasure, amber, the best of the Gdansk region, was exported to Mycenae. The Amber Route in Poland ran through the Klodzka Valley, Silesia, Greater Poland and Kuyavy. There it was exchanged for Egyptian and Aegean faience beads, which returned to the Vistula with the wind of the achievements of the Mediterranean civilizations, mainly the Mycenaean, which developed around 1800 BC. and within five hundred years had an important impact on the Balkans and also reached areas of Central and Western Europe. Yes, Poland is in Central Europe, not Eastern Europe. It can be said that amber is our oldest export commodity. And thanks to this, our contribution to the development of art is significant, because many ancient artists from the Mediterranean were able to realize their works. Amber from Poland also went beyond the Mediterranean coast. Products from amber, as well as unprocessed raw materials, went to the countries of East Asia. To China, Korea or Japan. Yes, the interest of the Chinese in Polish amber did not start today. It was revived because amber was known in distant Asia since the founding of the Silk Road, the oldest trade route in the world.  

Etruscan connections with Poland

The amber ship is a later one, it is an Etruscan product dating back to 600-575 BC, i.e. by the time sheep and goats were grazing on the outskirts of Rome. Etruria was at its peak and Rome was beginning to take shape. History knows little about the Etruscans, also known as the Trushes. They had highly developed arts and crafts, especially jewelry, which means that they lived well and comfortably. Poor cultures produce poor ornaments. No one has exactly specified where the Etruscans came from to Italy, and it is not known what happened to them when their neighbor, Rome, became a power. But there are traces indicating the relationship of the Etruscans with Poland. Household urns almost identical to known Etruscans have been found in tombs of the Facial Urn Culture (XNUMXth-XNUMXth century BC) in Eastern Pomerania. Could there have been Etruscan settlements in Eastern Pomerania?