Cathedral officials in Lithuania spent decades searching for 450-year-old royal treasures hidden before WWII. Photos show the long-lost finds. Photo from the Vilnius Archdiocese / Aistė Karpytė ...

Rings, medallions, crowns, plaques, and a scepter were hastily gathered and stashed in a crypt in the Vilnius Cathedral, where they would remain hidden for nearly nine decades. But no more.

In a discovery that has stunned historians, a trove of royal artefacts has been uncovered in the crypts beneath Vilnius Cathedral in Lithuania. Hidden since the outbreak of World War II ...

The cache from Vilnius Cathedral, in Lithuania, has not been seen since the outbreak of World War II in 1939, according to a press release from Go Vilnius tourism promotion agency on Wednesday.

As a second world war loomed, caretakers of a cathedral in Lithuania decided to hide its royal treasures. Their plan worked — but their hiding spot took 85 years to rediscover. A team of museum ...

Long-lost crowns, rings, and sceptres dating back to the 15th and 16th centuries have resurfaced in the crypt of Lithuania’s most famous cathedral.View on euronews ...

(CNN) — Historical treasures hidden for decades have been uncovered in the crypts of a cathedral, with items including burial crowns and insignia belonging to Medieval European rulers. The cache from ...