“The Amber Room has enormous emotional significance for both Germany and Russia,” Ruhrgas’s chairman Friedrich Spath said in 2003 at the grand opening, which was attended by Russian ...

The gathering of loose amber churned up by storms on the Baltic Sea dates back centuries. A map from the early 1600s that includes the beach seen in these photographs notes that “when the north ...

KALININGRAD, September 24. /TASS/. The Kaliningrad Amber Factory, a subsidiary of Rostec located in Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, has excavated a unique amber nugget weighing more than ...

The Russian exclave of Kaliningrad is the centre of the world’s amber trade, with the region holding about 90 per cent of the global reserves of the fossilised tree resin.

Amber was first collected and polished by people living in the Baltic Sea region between 4,000 and 1,600 years ago, according to the Kaliningrad Regional Amber Museum.

The wreck of a German steamship sunk at the end of World War II found by divers, with the crates on board the submerged ...

Grass found in Baltic amber Date: October 4, 2021 Source: Oregon State University Summary: Amber researc has produced the first definite identification of grass in fossilized tree resin from the ...

The wreck of a German steamship sunk in 1945 has been found in the Baltic by divers from Poland; it's thought that crates on board may hold the precious furnishings of the lost Amber Room, an ...

TSARSKOYE SELO, Russia -- Elaborately carved amber panels, in shades ranging from butter yellow to dark red, stretch up 26-foot walls. Gilded parrots perch on candle holders, their tiny tilted ...

Alarmed that the EU’s measures could slash Russian oil supply and further turbocharge global inflation, US officials and others in the G-7 stepped in and struck a compromise deal to impose a ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Soccer fans travelling to Kaliningrad, one of Russia's 11 World Cup host cities, could strike gold on its nearby Baltic Sea beach resorts. Amber, known locally as 'Baltic gold ...