Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Amber Room, looted by Nazis during WWII, to be recreated | ummid.com

Amber Room, looted by Nazis during WWII, to be recreated | ummid.com
Experts estimate that 60-100 tonnes of amber is mined illegally every year in the Kaliningrad region, believed to hold more than 90 percent of the world's total known amber reserves and home to the world's only strip-mined natural amber deposit.