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 after German ...
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 heads ...
While many Americans associate amber with the casing for dinosaur DNA in 1993's Jurassic Park, the stone has enthralled Europeans, and especially Russians, for centuries because of the golden, ...
In this edition of "The Hunt:" The priceless chamber that stood for more than two decades in a royal palace. Then came World War II. Recreation of the Amber Room in Catherine Palace, Pushkin, near St ...
We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,992,538-part monthly series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: Amber Room What it’s about: An entire room that was stolen by the Nazis. (The real Nazis ...