Thieves missed $1M amber doorstop in Romania

In a rural village in Romania, an elderly woman had been using a 7.7-pound amber rock as a doorstop for decades. The elderly woman, who passed away in 1991, had discovered the heavy, fossilized resin in a stream bed near the village of Colți. When burglars broke into her home, they stole her jewelry but left the valuable amber behind, unaware of its potential worth.

The stone, measuring 7.7 pounds, was later discovered to be approximately 70 million years old. Thanks to the efforts of Romanian authorities and Polish experts, the amber has been recognized as a protected national treasure, now on display at the Buzău County Museum since 2022.