Professor and jewellery designer Slawomir Fijalkowski (C) talks with his assistant Zuzanna Franczak (R) and Marek Pawlowski (L), an amber jewellery creator, at the workshop of the Experimental Design Studio on Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland on March 10, 2026. Long coveted for its golden color, scientific value and alleged healing properties, amber is now coming into the hand of young Polish jewelers, bringing the ancient resin into modern times. Together with drills, sanders, blasters, and power saws which look like they belong to a bygone era, virtual reality stations are used to combine earlier tools with state-of-the-art technology at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, a city on Poland's Baltic Coast known as amber's global capital. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP via Getty Images)