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Hi, I'm Ben Brock Johnson.

I'm Amari Severtzen, and we're the hosts of Endless Thread.

You know us, the friendly WBUR other podcasters who jump into your feed from time to time with stories.

We have another Art Heist mystery that we think you'll love.

It's about one of the greatest missing treasures in the world.

The Amber Room. Here's the story.

Amari, you have seen the original Jurassic Park movie, right?

Dinosaurs, eat man, woman inherits the earth.

Clevver girl.

So, Amari, you obviously remember that part of the movie where there's this little educational video for visitors to Jurassic Park.

Explaining how dinosaurs get brought to life in modern times using DNA from ancient mosquito blood.

Ah, yes, a movie within the movie, very meta.

Sometimes, after biting a dinosaur, the mosquito would land on the branch of a tree and get stuck in the sap.

After a long time, the tree sap would get hard and become fossilized just like a dinosaur bone,

preserving the mosquito inside.

That's how you get Amber and a whole adventure park full of deadly ass dinos.

Heck yeah. Also, Jurassic Park was my first understanding of the idea that fossilized tree sap, aka Amber, is rare and valuable.

But I had no idea that it was this valuable.

Amber in the bank was like gold in the bank.

This is Adrian Levy, who is not talking about the Jurassic period.

He's talking about 18th century Europe.

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