Archaeologists have unearthed several burial regalia belonging to royal families in Lithuania ... ground of people belonging to the family of the Lithuanian Grand Duchy. Experts knew from ...
The items included the funerary crown of Alexander Jagellion, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania between 1501 and 1506.
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 / AistÄ— KarpytÄ— ...
A secret cache of treasure, comprising burial crowns and insignia belonging to Polish and Lithuanian rulers, has been uncovered after more than 85 years from Vilnius Cathedral in Lithuania.
In 1939, at the onset of World War II, a cache of Lithuanian and Polish royal treasures went underground. Rings, medallions, crowns, plaques, and a scepter were hastily gathered and stashed in a ...