But really within a matter of hours someone had taken a bayonet to that padding, realized that the Amber Room was behind it, and used a lot more brute force than Kuchumov, the Russian curator, was ...

The Amber Room of the Catherine Palace is one of the most famous missing cultural treasures. Russian Tsar Peter I received this masterpiece constructed by German craftsmen as a gift from Prussian ...

At the end of May, Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will open the room to 47 fellow heads of state at St. Petersburg's 300th birthday bash.

Polish archaeologists stressed that the new survey combined archival research, modern geophysics, and systematic methodology ...

Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Polish divers said Thursday they have located a Nazi shipwreck from World War II that may help solve a 75-year-old mystery -- the location of the fabled Russian Amber Room.

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

Called La Chambre d’Ambre (The Amber Room), the collection is based on the famed Amber Room of Russia, built in the 18th Century, destroyed during World War II and reopened in 2003, following a ...

A BREAKTHROUGH may have been made in the hunt for Hitler’s legendary gold train – said to be packed with jewels, gold and the ...

TSARSKOYE SELO, Russia, May 28 -- Hidden for now behind a white screen from the prying eyes of visitors to Catherine Palace, the painstakingly re-created Amber Room glows with the yellows, oranges ...

The Amber Room was moved to Koenigsberg, now the Russian city of Kaliningrad, when retreating Nazi troops looted the palace in World War II. It disappeared in 1945. Only pieces have been found.

Polish divers say they have found the wreck of a German World War Two ship which may help solve a decades-old mystery - the whereabouts of the Amber Room, an ornate chamber from a tsarist palace ...