where is the Amber Room?
The Amber Room was the largest work of art ever made out of amber. It consisted of 100,000 pieces of carved amber accented with diamonds, emeralds, jade, onyx and rubies. These panels covered an entire room of 55 square metres and weighed more than six tons. The amber panels were backed entirely in gold leaf. It took a team of craftsmen ten years to carve, and is sometimes described as the “Eighth Wonder of the World”. The amber room is believed to be worth in excess of $250m and is without a doubt the world’s greatest lost treasure. The amber room was commissioned by Frederick I of Prussia in 1701, and later presented to the Russian Czar Peter the Great. It decorated the Catherine Palace, near St Petersburg, Russia, until September 1941 when invading German troops carried the amber room off to Knigsberg in what was then East Prussia (now the Russian city of Kaliningrad). The Amber Room was then displayed in Konigsberg Castle, before being locked away in twenty six crates and stored in
