Not even close on the Amber Room. Read the Kestrel Strategy novel lulu.com

carol went to www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/183 appears to have some very interesting comments might answer posting by Jamie

What ever happened to the idea it was sunk aboard the Wilhelm Gustave?

I too read Steve Berry's book...working on it a second time. Intriguing to say the least. Thank you to the Smithsonian for illuminating the replication on the internet. I agree about losses due to war and greed.

@mike stanley, amber is fossilized tree sap. Fossilization is the process of turning organic materials into minerals.

What is amber? It appears the color of gold but is it a mineral, metal, other material?

Thanks Alex,
I went to the site you said to go to. If you meant the postings by ANONPD, yes they are very interesting more than some of the books about it. You can go straight to the page if you use
www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/183
Hope he/she is right, sounds like could be.
Carol

I, too am reading the book The Amber Room by Berry. I became so fasinated with the whole mystery I had to stop and Google The Amber Room. I sincerely hope we are able to step up or efforts to locate this treasure before all secrets die forever.

I always thought of amber as a color not a mineral and was surprised to learn how valuable it is. I too read Steve Berry's book and found it fascinating and I had to google the Amber Room to see how authentic the story was. He follows it pretty closely but takes some "artistic license" as a good story teller will. The fabrication of that room sounds like an enormous undertaking.

I am interesetd about this room too..googeling amber room ,i found on thehistoryblog.com,amber...telling more about the amber.. you can read more details,from a man who knows exactly where it can be found....really interesting...so if you want read more just pop in...and click {amber room for reals?}
alex

I also watched the Solving History episode about the Amber Room, and was quite intrigued. Especially because so many people assumed that the entire 6 tons of amber was burned during the bombing, but now experts say that there would be remnants in the ground, that amount of amber would have left small traces behind, so it very well could still be hidden away somewhere. The mayor of the town Kaliningrad (i think that's the name) still searched for the amber room and other items hidden around the town, and he's even received many anonymous death threats telling him to stop searching, makes you think there could be something even more to find than the Amber Room???? very interesting

Ive just watched discovery channels program 'mystery investigator olly steed'-fascinating stuff.It was about the amber room.I recommend anyone interested in this topic to see it.He was in present day East Germany/Czech Republic looking for the room.I googled the amber room immediately.There are people out there who know what happened but are keeping quiet.Im Irish with a Russian girlfriend.Ive been to the Hermitage museum twice.A must for lovers of amber....

I remember seeing some sort of replica of the Amber Room on display some time ago in the World Trade Center in NYC.

Also just finished Steve Berry's book (my 4th of his 8 titles) and was again pleased with his history context treatment about the Amber Room. Found this website while reviewing various sites. He bases his stories around actual subjects with the writer's license to fill the fictional plots. He's quite good, and a real pleasure if you are a Dan Brown fan. Happy reading to all.

Many years ago (1950s) I remember reading, as a child about a german leader, Goering I think, showing a piece of the Amber Room to a visitor. The visitor was the author of the book I read. Sadly I cannot remember who the author was. I was fascinated and ever since have read little bits about the room and followed the search for it with great interest.
I thought the visitor/author might have been Adolf Galland and read his autobiography but did not find the reference to it.
In passing, I went to see the Mapa Mundi at Hereford Cathedral, a note said a finer (?) version had been destroyed by Allied bombing in WW2, a great pity. Also the destruction of the library at Louvein in 1914. We loose so much in war.

I found the book by Steve Berry by accident when I was stuck in Kuwait at the airbase. I had never even heard of the Amber Room before. Love it

I googled the Amber Room also after reading the first of a series by Elizabeth Lowell. Awesome rare gems and "uncle Sam" mystery and romance. Was also curious if real story. All the theories seem plausible. So much was lost in the past do to greed and war.

Googled the Amber Room after reading the book The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny. The book is a mystery but a piece of amber from the Amber Room was found in the story and I was curious as to whether it really existed. Fascinating but sad, too -- no one wins in war.

I had actually never heard of any of this until today. This is really fascinating, and it captivates the imagination. Josef, how do you know all of that??

http://amber.tzar.ru/amber here you can find details of restoration....all 5 steps... but it is in Russian.... I think it is the most accurate information you can find online about the Amber room. Website says there are working on English version... For me it is a very sad story - how stupidity and vanity of some people can destroy such a treasure.

I,too,am reading the Amber Room by Berry. It piqued my interest and I decided to Google it. I am gratified to know it is indeed real and love the idea that there are still mysteries in this world.

This article is very interesting

Also reading Steve Berry's book The Amber Room, not done yet but decided to check and see if the amber room existed. Very interesting tale. Glad to get to see the pictures, it will bring the book to life for me. Thanks!

The amber had actually crumbled when the Russians tried to dismantle the room. When the Gemans got ahold of the room behind the hastily pasted and camouflaged wallpaper wall they too in their greed and haste allowed the rest of the room to crumble during the dismantlement and put the sometimes tiny pieces into numerous cases and crates. The rest of the treasures were crated and put into numerous boxes and crates too. I believe these items were kept together due to Hitlers instructions. When they were done, to keep the amber from falling into the wrong hands as a complete room and the contents, they separated the shipments into about 10 different vehicles, some trucks, cars and a couple of motorbikes. Some of the vehicles of course never made it to the destination, some of the drivers literally took off, knowing what they had and the worth of the individual shipments. Some were killed outright by allies, the rest was lost, but found again and kept hidden, where I do not know. Some of you amber collectors and admirers may actually be wearing or keeping the actual amber from the very room as I write. I am not sure if it can be dated and if they can tell exactly where it was mined or found, but it might be interesting to check if you can, and desire to know. josef

Just reading Steve Berry's "The Amber Room" right now. Love his books. Makes me want to go on all these adventures. Has the Amber Room really been found? Or is it in some private collector's castle somewhere in Germany or Russia? I think it will remain a secret for many years to come. It is absolutely magnificent, though, just from viewing the pictures. Wish the public could see it and share in its beauty. Yet another hardship and desecration of war. How sad. Still interesting to learn about, though!

Amber room is still hidden in POland, in the Town named "Paslek" It's burried under castle.

I believe the amber room is still around just hidden some where. The amber room was rebuilt but its still not the same. an original is always worth more then a copy. i wish to find the real amber room.

I just finished reading the Amber Room by Steve Berry and enjoyed it very much. His writing is similar to that of Dan Brown in DiVinci Code, and I enjoyed both books. As the book was fiction but based on some true facts, it peaked my curiosity as to what ever really did happen to it and found this site of great interest. Happy to give my thoughts on the book.

Just read Berry's Amber Room. Very Interesting. Had no idea it actually did exist. We managed to stamp out a lot of evil in WWII but does anyone really 'win' in a war. 3/24/09/ 01:30 AM

T. Davis Bunn writes a series of novels, The Priceless Collection, about lost and found treasures in Eastern Europe. Florian's Gate focuses on Poland; The Amber Room has a fictionalized account of finding and resurrecting this lost artifact; and The Winter Palace features Russia's art heritage. I heartily recommend these books if you liked others about the Amber Room.

i did research on the amber room but to Josh it is not in a us military base

Just finished the Scott-Clark/Levy rendition of the Amber Room. I thought they had it sewed up but Kathy's comment of Oct 18/08 re the smell of burning amber (mentioned in Berry's book which I haven't read) is not mentioned at all by Scott-Clark/Levy. Maybe it was lost in the other putrid smells of war and of an old city that would not meet our current standards of sanitation. Just grabbin' at straws.

I also just finished Steve Berry's book. One point he made was that if the Amber Room was burned, there would have been a noticeable and distinct of smell of the burning amber. There are no contemporary accounts of such a smell during the time of the burning. Hey, it's fiction but could that be true? If its pine resin, I would imagine it would have distinct odor. Curious . . .

Since Amber is really pitch, it burns very quickly. It could have all been lost in a fire, with no remaining traces.

I too have just read The Amber Room by Steve Berry. He is an excellent writer...all his books are great. As to the room, we will probably never know..but one can surmise that the worst done was probally true. Neither of those 2 countries have any do-right in them.

Fascinating. I became interested after reading Steve Berry's "The Amber Room" - although fiction it captured my imagination. Tragic if the Room is lost forever - the casualties of war is not limited to lives, property, liberty etc but to civilization.

There is also book "Amber Room" by Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy; I', in the middle of it ! very interesting! Makes you go hunting for hidden treasure ! But also you feel tremendous loss of precious arts forever ! War is and always will be the most evil acts, people had ever done.

I think the Soviets have it hidden, just as they have other items they "acquired" during WWII. Probably hidden in that famous underground storage at their national museum.

Some researchers and scholars, as well as hunters of the amber room, came to the sad conclusion that the room was looted and trashed by the red army in 1941, with many people taking small bits of it for souveniers, and the rest being destroyed by fire. The Soviets wanted to cover up that fact, and so even knowing that it didn't exist anymore, staged "hunts" for it, all the while blaming it on the Germans.

Jus finished Steve Berry's "The Amber Room" and had to look up something about the Aamber Room. His book is fun.

Does anyone know the history behind why the Amber Room was originally made and why? (Other than a gift for Katherine the Great?) Thanks

amber is also special to people in other countries like poland

Mayor Hans-Peter Haustein of Deutschneudorf in Germany and Christian Hanisch,son of a Luftwaffe navigator who was instructed by the Nazis to hide stolen artifacts during the last days of the war claim to have found a local cavern containing up to two tonnes of precious metal. They have used electromagnetic tests to reach this conclusion and claim this underground chamber also contains Russias' lost Amber Room. We shall see.

Is there, somewhere, a photo of the amber room panel that appeared on the blackmarket a few years back??

I think amber is resin from pine trees that has been submerged in water for a long time where it becomes "petrified."

The amber was made into figures and other small pieces and then stuck onto the wall to make the scenes. There is a book by Steven Berry that about this room.....called the Amber Room.

that's pretty sweet and i would absolutely love to see it. however i'm not clear if the panels were ever found, or if they just replicated it trying to be as accurate as possible...?

that is so cool i wonder how big the chunk of amber had to be to make panels of amber also if there is that much amber in Prussia why do they not just re-make the panels? well thats all.

Those panels are in a crate inside that U.S military base at the end of Raiders of The Lost Ark!

very interesting, but PLEASE don't use the wretched word "Tsarina". Tsar is the masculine - Emperor (Kaiser, Empereur) Tsaritsa is the Russian feminine. German has two forms: Kaiserin, and Tsarin. (-in is the German feminizing suffix). French gives us Imperatrice, or in English Empress. All forms seem to govern both the wife/consort of a male ruler, and a female ruler. happy New Year ben Cosin.

amber is not a stone or a gemstone