THE AMBER ROOM: THE EIGHTH WONDER
Episode 12 - History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places
In this Mystery episode we focus on the Amber Room — called the Eighth Wonder of the World. Six tons of amber, gold leaf, and precious stones assembled into an entire room in an 18th century Russian palace, stolen by the Nazis in 1941, and never found.
This episode traces the room's extraordinary history, follows the trail as it goes cold in a bombed-out German castle in 1945, and covers the searchers who devoted their lives to finding it — some of whom didn't survive the search.
It's either gone forever. Or it's still out…
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