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Encasing in amber really only shields you from outside things. Those include chemicals (especially oxygen, oxygen is _very_ reactive), life (bacteria) and possibly some shielding against radiation (eg light).

Those do encompass a _lot_ of the reason that anything decays, but unfortunately it's not _all_ of the reasons things decay. And over millions of years, the remaining decay mechanisms are enough that you're really not going to have much/any intact DNA. It makes for a good story though.



Cool, this was my uneducated assumption, thanks!




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