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 think the crypt was filled in around the year 1300, but the discovery changes their previous understanding that the original cathedral was built without a crypt. The most exciting ...

Excavations at Exeter Cathedral in England have uncovered the original foundations of the church’s 12th-century high altar, a medieval crypt and the empty tombs of two bishops, marking “the most ...

Researchers found parts of the original church beneath the cathedral's quire. Exeter Cathedral Excavations at Exeter Cathedral in England have uncovered the original foundations of the church’s ...

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 ...