Germany: Will these OAPs discover the 'eighth wonder of the world'?

A group of German pensioners and part-time amateur archaeologists went digging in the western German town of Wuppertal on Wednesday, in search of the Amber Room, a priceless work of art looted by Nazis from the Soviet Union during WWII. The Amber Room of Tsars is regarded by some as the 'eighth wonder of the world.' It was designed by German Baroque sculptor Andreas Schlueter and constructed by German and Russian workers in Prussia in 1701. The room's first home was Berlin's Charlottenburg Palace where it caught the eye of Russia's Tsar at the time, Peter the Great. In order to strengthen the Prussian-Russian alliance against Sweden, Frederick William presented the room to Peter the Great in 1716. Shipped in 18 large boxes, the room was placed in Catherine Palace at Tsarsakoye Selo near Saint Petersburg in 1755. There it remained until it was looted by the Nazis in 1941 and disappeared, with some historians predicting that it had been smuggled back to Germany.