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A woman’s doorstop turned out to be a $1 million fossil
Cleveland.com • • world
Key Points:
- A Romanian family discovered that a heavy reddish stone used as a doorstop was actually a 7.7-pound piece of amber valued at around $1.1 million.
- The amber, found near Colți village, is fossilized tree resin estimated to be between 38 million and 70 million years old, possibly dating back to the time of the dinosaurs.
- Despite thieves stealing gold jewelry from the elderly woman's home, they left the valuable amber stone untouched.
- After the woman’s death in 1991, a relative sold the amber to the Romanian government, and it is now exhibited as a national treasure at the Buzău County Museum since 2022.
- Museum officials regard this amber as one of the largest specimens in the world.
