00:00 The Amber Room, considered one of the great mysteries of World War II, was a masterpiece of Baroque art made from amber and panels on a wall that disappeared and no one knows where it ended up for sure.

05:15 The Amber Room was an incredibly valuable and opulent room paneled in amber, designed by Andreas Schluter and created by Gottfried Wolfram using a mosaic method with bronze foil to protect the wood.

10:52 The designers and builders of the Amber Room, Andreas Schluter and Gottfried Wolfram, were both fired before the completion of the room, and King Frederick William I decided he didn't want it and ordered it to be packed up and taken to Berlin.

16:04 The Amber Panels were initially taken to Berlin and then given to Tsar Peter I of Russia, but they didn't fit in the palace rooms, so they were packed up and stored for 25 years until Empress Elizabeth decided to make it work and hired an Italian sculptor named Alexander Martelli to complete the Amber Room.

21:08 Catherine the Great finished the Amber Room in the Catherine Palace with four stone mosaics and it was filled with 550 wall-mounted candles, creating a warm and glowing masterpiece.

26:13 During World War II, the Nazis successfully packed up the Amber Room in 27 crates and transported it to Königsberg Castle, where it was displayed until it was bombed and burned to the ground by Russian troops in 1945.

31:31 The official line is that the Amber Room burned along with the rest of Königsberg Castle in April 1945, but there are competing theories that suggest it may not have been in the castle at the time.

36:10 Competing theories suggest that the Amber Room may not have been destroyed in the castle, as the KGB continued to search for it and there would have been a strong smell of burning amber if it had burned, but there are also claims from friends of Rhodes who saw a charred lump of amber in the castle after it was destroyed; additionally, there is evidence that pieces of the Amber Room were found and an art dealer tried to sell a fully intact mosaic, leading to the son of an SS officer who transported the Amber Room claiming that it could have survived and may still be out there.

41:31 Theories suggest that the Amber Room could have been hidden in tunnels and mines, such as the Volperhaus in mine, which was destroyed in an explosion in 1945, and it's possible that the room could still be hidden in mountainsides or basements.

46:37 The Soviet authorities commissioned a full scale replica of the Amber Room in the Catherine Palace, which took 25 years to construct and included original pieces recovered through illegal sale.

51:29 The recreation of the Amber Room is valued at 500 million, indicating the worth of the original, although it may not be as impressive as one might expect.