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 ...

Had the Amber Room never existed, it would be the stuff of fairy tales, alongside crystal swords, gingerbread houses and castles built atop diamonds big as the Ritz. Describing the amber-walled salon ...

THE AMBER ROOM: The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure. By Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy. Walker, 386 pp. $26. Show me a history buff who doesn't like a good mystery. Although the ...

For some, the Amber Room the eighteenth-century chamber in St. Petersburg's Catherine Palace that was covered from floor to ceiling in 180 square feet of amber was the eighth wonder of the world.

Though it's located about 20 miles outside St. Petersburg proper, the Catherine Palace and Park certainly merits a visit by anyone in the area, especially enthusiasts of elaborate and fanciful ...

The most precious thing stolen in this decade-long sweep was actually an entire room-the Amber Chamber. The Amber Room, as it is alternatively called, sat in St. Petersburg’s Catherine Palace in ...

Missing for decades, Russia's legendary Amber Room is restored to full splendor. Jan. 30, 2008— -- It was a chamber fit for a queen. A fairy tale of a room, crafted almost entirely of six tons of ...