Vilnius, in the south-west of the country ... High above us atop a green mound is Gediminas’ Tower – named after the city’s 14th century founding father and accessed by a funicular (€1 ...

including the one in 17th-century Vilnius. Duggan and Poinar’s analysis, published in Current Biology, concludes that variola as we know it likely arose in the late 1500s or early 1600s ...

The Kernav Archaeological site, about 35 km north-west of Vilnius in eastern Lithuania ... The town was destroyed by the Teutonic Order in the late 14th century, however the site remained in use until ...