The keepers of the crypt have a theory as to what caused ... On his desk, he unrolled a detailed floor plan of the cathedral. The area we visited, he said, was on its north side — in other ...

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 ...

Archaeologists excavating Exeter Cathedral in England have uncovered the church's 12th-century high altar, a medieval crypt and the empty tombs of two bishops. The cathedral, constructed around A ...

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 ...