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The Amber Room blended amber, gold, and precious stones. The mystery of its disappearance during WWII, has sparked ongoing quests to recover this legendary
From Roman eagles to a painting worth more than 1 hundred million dollars, check out these lost treasures just waiting to be rediscovered in Germany.
During the Second World War, German forces occupied much of Europe, from Norway in the north to the Spanish border in the south and from the west coast eastward to include parts of Russia. As the occupying force, they used foreign workers to do forced labor and took many of the natural resources from the various countries theyâd invaded. They also took something else. They organized the systematic looting of many of the continentâs treasures and even had military units known as Kunstschutz, whose sole task was to seize books, paintings, porcelain, religious artifacts and other art t...
How World War II Stole the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’ From Humanity The room was part of the Catherine Palace near St, Petersburg and it was last seen in the Baltic port city of Königsberg in East Prussia. Here's What You Need to Remember: A full reconstruction of the Amber Room was created at Tsarskyoye Selo based on eight-six black and white photographs taken of various fragments of the room. The construction process, which began in 1979, was finally completed in 2003 at a cost of $11 million. It was dubbed the “Eighth Wonder of the World,” a golden-hued, jewel-encrusted chamber...
What Happened to the Amber Room? A World War II Mystery One of the greatest art treasures of Imperial Russia disappeared with the Nazis and has yet to be found. Here's What You Need to Know: Over the years, a number of extensive searches have proved fruitless. In September 1941, during the siege of Leningrad, as the Soviets then called St. Petersburg, Nazi troops overran the Tsarskoye Selo Palace, the former summer residence of the czars in the suburban town of Pushkin. Inside the palace, these German troops discovered something that must have seemed otherworldly to them after they had spent...