Baltic-speaking people of the southeastern Baltic Sea coast (roughly the Sambia peninsula/modern Kaliningrad region) first described by Tacitus as amber-gatherers; ancestral to the later Old Prussians and closely related Baltic tribes.
No single conquest or dissolution event; the name and population gradually differentiate into the historically-named medieval Baltic peoples (Old Prussians, Curonians, and others), several of which appear as named groups in the historical-basemaps world_1000 snapshot ('Prussians', 'Kurs').
A history of the Baltic lands whose ancient peoples included the Aesti.