The items included the funerary crown of Alexander Jagellion, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania between 1501 and 1506.

The cache from Vilnius Cathedral, in Lithuania, has not been seen since the outbreak of World War II in 1939, according to a press release from Go Vilnius tourism promotion agency on Wednesday.

Rings, medallions, crowns, plaques, and a scepter were hastily gathered and stashed in a crypt in the Vilnius Cathedral, where they would remain hidden for nearly nine decades. But no more.

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 / Aistė Karpytė ...

In a discovery that has stunned historians, a trove of royal artefacts has been uncovered in the crypts beneath Vilnius Cathedral in Lithuania. Hidden since the outbreak of World War II ...

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 ...