Third paragraph in the article states that Nordic amber was heavily prized in Mycenaean Greece. Distances and climate in Europe are actually quite reasonable fo

Third paragraph in the article states that Nordic amber was heavily prized in Mycenaean Greece. Distances and climate in Europe are actually quite reasonable for overland journeys, especially considering that the ancient empires of the Middle East interacted in a substantial way for several millennia despite being much farther than a Greece-Sweden transit.