Case file · Folklore / legend
The lost Amber Room
The Amber Room, taken by German troops from the Catherine Palace near Leningrad in 1941, was last seen in Königsberg Castle; it vanished in the bombing and fall of the city in 1945.
1945 CE · 54.71, 20.51 · status: unexplained
The account
Theories place it in bunkers, mines, a sunken ship, or say it burned in the castle. Treasure hunters and writers link several deaths to a 'curse' of the Amber Room. A reconstruction was completed in 2003. One original Florentine mosaic panel surfaced in Germany in 1997.
The sceptical view
Most historians think it was destroyed in the fires of 1944–45.