This could be monumental time in history or yet another visit to Al Capone's Vault albeit with Geraldo Rivera (mercifully!) no where in sight!
I have been down this road before. I lived on Guam when there were numerous expeditions to locate Amelia Earhart on the island of Tinian with people supposedly seeing a "white female and white man" (supposedly her navigator Fred Noonan) being held captive in a jail and buried on the island. It was very exciting at the time to think it could be so close but like many other things, it ended in disappointment. There is nothing more unreliable then memories and many of these "finds" rely on imperfect memories of events. On the other hand, I still do remember the excitement when they found the Titanic back in the mid-1980's, so I guess there is some hope.
I think the story of the Amber room is fascinating but you have to keep a few things in mind. First of all, the amber in the room was crumbling away in the 1940's to such a degree that the Red Army could not dismantle it without destroying it and resorted to attempting to hide it under wall paper. When the Germans came through, they supposedly disassembled in 36 hours and in such haste with already crumbling amber, I am sure there was significant damage done. Add on 60+ years and the state of the panels (if intact) can only be worse. At the mine site where they are drilling, they stated they hit a cavern that was filled with water so even if the panels are in that shaft, the already crumbling panels will have been potentially under water for 60+ years. It doesn't look good for the home team. Look at what 50 years did to that Plymouth Belvedere they dug up in Oklahoma that was in a "sealed" vault.
I have been down this road before. I lived on Guam when there were numerous expeditions to locate Amelia Earhart on the island of Tinian with people supposedly seeing a "white female and white man" (supposedly her navigator Fred Noonan) being held captive in a jail and buried on the island. It was very exciting at the time to think it could be so close but like many other things, it ended in disappointment. There is nothing more unreliable then memories and many of these "finds" rely on imperfect memories of events. On the other hand, I still do remember the excitement when they found the Titanic back in the mid-1980's, so I guess there is some hope.
I think the story of the Amber room is fascinating but you have to keep a few things in mind. First of all, the amber in the room was crumbling away in the 1940's to such a degree that the Red Army could not dismantle it without destroying it and resorted to attempting to hide it under wall paper. When the Germans came through, they supposedly disassembled in 36 hours and in such haste with already crumbling amber, I am sure there was significant damage done. Add on 60+ years and the state of the panels (if intact) can only be worse. At the mine site where they are drilling, they stated they hit a cavern that was filled with water so even if the panels are in that shaft, the already crumbling panels will have been potentially under water for 60+ years. It doesn't look good for the home team. Look at what 50 years did to that Plymouth Belvedere they dug up in Oklahoma that was in a "sealed" vault.
