Hard to credit after all this time, and after a thoroughly-researched book book which concluded that it was substantially destroyed, but a team of scientists in Germany believe they have discovered the fabled Amber Room in an underground Nazi storage network.

But MP Heinz-Peter Haustein, who has led a decade-long dig in the Ore Mountain region near the Czech border today said he is confident they have finally found the room valued at £200million.

"I'm well over 90 percent sure we have found the Amber Room," he said after electromagnetic tests revealed the cavern.

"The chamber is likely to be part of a labyrinth of storage rooms that the Nazis built here."

UPDATE: what they've actually found so far is gold, and the Tsarskoe Selo museum is sceptical about the Amber room:

Not a single gram of gold was used in the furnishing of the Amber Room ... These suppositions are intended to create a sensation (Gazeta.ru, in Russian).