A team of museum employees and church officials gathered at Vilnius Cathedral last fall to plan another search for some medieval royal treasures believed to be hidden in the crypt. They didn’t ...

Aiste Karpyte In the crypts of a Lithuanian cathedral, researchers have discovered a trove of royal treasure: crowns, jewelry and a scepter that belonged to several Lithuanian-Polish monarchs from ...

A church built for Britain’s first known Christian martyr developed into The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Albans ... In 429, Germanus, Bishop of Auxerre, was sent to Britain by the Pope to combat ...

In 1931, a flood damaged the cathedral’s crypt, exposing the three rulers’ coffins. The funerary regalia was then gathered from the burials, as Sotincenka tells Live Science .

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 ...

Standing in the cathedral crypt alongside Hamlin, Robinson shares how, for 20 years, Shepard’s parents had not buried their son’s ashes, fearing that his grave would be desecrated by the ...

A newspaper dated September 1939 was wrapped around the royal accessories before they were hidden in a niche under a staircase in the Vilnius Cathedral crypt. Although experts knew from historical ...