The wreck of a German steamship sunk at the end of World War II found by divers, with the crates on board the submerged ...

Thing we were happiest to learn: Brezhnev also ordered the Amber Room rebuilt. In 1979, he commissioned a replica, based on drawings and black-and-white photos of the original.

The lightest palette of all, of course, is all white. “White paint will help spread and reflect light around, which also ...

When Lonely Planet positioned Lithuania in the number-two spot of its Best in Travel in 2025, before Fiji, Laos and Kazakhstan, it roused surprise, curiosity and thrill. Bordered by Latvia, Poland ...

The Amber Room, featuring six tons of amber, was originally a lavish gift to Peter the Great in the early 1700s but disappeared toward the end of World War II after it was looted by German soldiers.

The recently launched route from Prague to Gdynia on Poland's Baltic coast takes travellers directly into Central Europe's most vibrant and less-touristed towns and cities.

The Baltic Express bursts out of the Czech capital on a crisp winter morning. As the sky lightens, medieval Prague is streamed through the train's windows like a Netflix trailer.

A recent analysis of beads discovered in the ancient city of Hama, Syria, has revealed that some were crafted from Baltic amber, transported over 3,000 kilometers. This remarkable find highlights Hama ...

The Amber Room was a royal chamber that stood for more than two decades ... The reconstruction commenced in 1979, based assiduously on 86 black-and-white photographs taken of the original work, ...

SOME of the most valuable items ever stolen by Adolf Hitler’s Nazis during WWII may today be lying beneath the waves of the Baltic Sea. A stunning collection of gold worth £100million is beli… ...

Eyewitnesses claimed to have seen the Amber Room being packaged up and placed on board the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German transport ship, which was subsequently sunk in January 1945 by a Soviet submarine.