
The Hunt For The "8th Wonder Of The World" Stolen By The Nazis
The Amber Room was a chamber lined floor to ceiling in carved amber and gold leaf, gifted to Russia by Prussia in the eighteenth century and installed in the Catherine Palace outside St Petersburg, where it became known as the eighth wonder of the world. When German forces invaded the USSR in 1941, Nazi officers dismantled the room panel by panel and shipped it to Konigsberg, where it was last documented on public display before vanishing amid the city's bombing and Soviet capture in 1945. This episode of Myth Hunters follows historians and researchers tracing the competing theories of what happened next: destruction in an Allied air raid, burial in a hidden bunker, or secret survival in private hands. Interviews and archival photographs of the original room sit alongside footage from Konigsberg's ruins and the postwar reconstruction effort that eventually built a replica in the Catherine Palace. The film treats the room's fate as an open case, weighing the physical evidence against decades of treasure-hunter claims and dead-end excavations.