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 ...

Experts said they were now certain they had found the foundations of the cathedral's original high altar from the early 12th Century. An area thought to be a crypt and tombs have also been unearthed.

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 ...