As a second world war loomed, caretakers of a cathedral in Lithuania decided to hide its royal treasures. Their plan worked — ...

A secret cache containing the burial insignia of Lithuanian and Polish monarchs—hidden since the onset of World War II in ...

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.

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U.S. Army soldiers and Lithuanian service members salute as they attend a solemn farewell ceremony at Cathedral Square in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Thursday for the four U.S. soldiers who died during ...

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 ...