The Amber Room in Catherine Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, 1917. This is the only existing color photo of the room before World War ll. Photo: Sovfoto / Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

After ten years of private investigation, treasure hunters, led by Jan Delingowski, have received permission to begin excavations.

Visit a full-scale replica of the world-famous Amber Room, which was looted by Nazi forces, and is now reconstructed in a Polish bunker complex. The Amber Room was a magnificent chamber decorated ...

Visitors look at the Amber Room in the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo on Tuesday as the restored chamber was presented to reporters. Russia’s legendary Amber Room, which went missing ...

Decorated with amber and gold, the Amber Room was part of the Catherine Palace near St Petersburg, but was last seen in Koenigsberg, then a Baltic port city in Germany but now the Russian enclave ...

The jewel-box of a room, its walls covered in amber, mosaics, mirrors and precious stones, was housed from 1755 until 1941 in Catherine the Great's palace outside St. Petersburg.

Visit a full-scale replica of the world-famous Amber Room, which was looted by Nazi forces, and is now reconstructed in a Polish bunker complex. The Amber Room was a magnificent chamber decorated with ...