Amateur Treasure Hunters Discover Infamous Stolen Room Worth Over $500 Million

Depressing Theories

Historians believed that the room was destroyed in the Allied Bombing, but some believed that Hitler preserved the Amber Room in a bunker or a mine that was under German control. This was a huge scare for modern historians—if the room was trapped in a mine or a bunker it would have been destroyed by moisture and age. To combat that, a Russian-born American chemist and amber expert named Dr. Alexander Shedrinsky took it upon himself to spearhead a recreation process so this incredible work of art could exist once more... 

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