German Treasure Hunters Claim to Have Found Famous Amber Room

[Dover]

German Treasure Hunters Claim to Have Found Amber Room
By David Crossland

Has the Amber Room, the 18th-century chamber decoration the Nazis stole from the Soviet Union in World War II, finally been found? German treasure hunters say they may have solved the decades-old mystery.

Treasure hunters in Germany claim they have found hidden gold in an underground cavern that they are almost certain contains the Amber Room treasure, believed by some to have been stashed away by the Nazis in a secret mission in the dying days of World War II.

The discovery of an estimated two tonnes of gold was made at the weekend when electromagnetic pulse measurements located the man-made cavern 20 meters underground near the village of Deutschneudorf on Germany's border with the Czech Republic.

The team, which used heavy digging equipment, hasn't been inside the room but analysis of the electromagnetic test has led it to believe that the cavern contains gold.

"I'm well over 90 percent sure we have found the Amber Room," the mayor of Deutschneudorf, Heinz-Peter Haustein, who led the search, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "The chamber is likely to be part of a labyrinth of storage rooms that the Nazis built here. I knew it was in this area. I just never knew exactly where."....> cont'd

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,536358,00.html

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Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Room


Video: Nat'l Geographic

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080125-amber-video-vin.html


YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?hl=en&q=Amber+Room&gbv=2&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=i1


AmberRoom.Org www.amberroom.org/index-english.htm

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[gateley]

1. How exciting - I LOVE stuff like this -- Thank you!! Rec.

EDIT - and thank you for the great links -- fascinating. :)

[Demeter]

2. Treasure Indeed!

I hope that they find it and that the world may view this wonder without limit.

[acmavm]

3. Whoa! Beautiful but excessive. Amazing that what originally started as

a system to lead people during times of war and to help fellow tribe members make group decisions turned into a system of obscene extravagance for those that felt they were chosen to be 'special'. A ruling class. An elite.

The plebians starve and the patricians live in luxury. A situation that is based either on birth or butchery.

And they say we're the most evolved creature on the planet.

edit: need to correct my last statement.

And WE say we're the most evolved creature on the planet.

[file83]

4. Reminds me of the book "Cryptonomicon", only it's in a cave on

the other side of the world. Very cool.

Not so cool: I wonder who they had dig that "man-made" cavern for them? I wonder if they'll find bones in those caves, too.

[bluesmail]

5. absolutely FASCINATING!

[Psyop Samurai]

6. Dang... and the caves in Paraguay were almost ready. nt

[applegrove]

7. I saw this story on TV. Glad that some Nazi gold will be returned to

its rightfull owner. Even at this late date.

[FloridaJudy]

8. The Russians

Reproduced it recently.

But this could be exciting. I just hope that the conditions in that cave favored preservation. I suspect the amber itself is pretty hardy - it's fossilized after all - but if the panels were damaged we could be looking at the world's largest jigsaw puzzle.

[Ganja Ninja]

9. I'm sure the Russians will want it back whatever the condition. n/t