Lost & Never Found: The 7 Most Expensive Cargo Disasters in History
2. The Amber Room
Another piece of fine art was lost in the fallout of the war against the Third Reich. This room was originally built by Germans in the 1700s by slapping amber all over it. The Russian Tsar loved it so much that he eventually had it given to him as a gift and added a lot more amber to the room. Hitler wanted it back since the Germans made it, but nobody knows if the room was able to be extracted before the Catherine Palace was bombed. It’s been rebuilt as an $11 million room, but the original was said to be worth about twenty times that much.
3. Jewels of Lima
If it’s jewels, you can probably imagine it will be worth a lot. These lost jewels are valued at about $1 billion and contain pretty much every gem you can think of. It even had a seven-foot statue in solid gold of Mary holding baby Jesus. Naturally, it was adorned with 1684 jewels. And that was just one of the items that were lost. It has a typical pirate’s treasure story attached to it, too: when Argentina threatened Lima, the British sought to leave with all the loot but were sunnk by a Spanish warship, leaving the treasure lost forever.
