The Road That Carried Everything
~ Monday, June 14, 2021 ~
A great deal of what gets called the Amber Road is simply geography. The corridor that runs from the Baltic coast to the Danube basin through the Moravian Gate is not a road in any meaningful sense. It is a series of terrain features — river valleys, a gap between mountain ranges, a gradual watershed — that make certain directions of travel easier than others. Amber moved through it. So did everything else.