The Catacombs of Rome were in use from the 1st to the 5th centuries CE. The earliest of the burials were generally cremations ...

Probably there are a number of lost catacombs, too." The oldest tunnels date back to the first century. "The Jewish community in Rome built them as cemeteries. Christian catacombs came a century ...

About the same time as the persecution of Decius, middle of the third century, is also when ... to imagine what this would have been. First of all, catacombs are a peculiar phenomenon in the ...

TASS/. Archeologists have unearthed catacombs in Crimea dating back to the end of the 3rd century BC - the onset of the 2nd century BC, Irina Rukavishnikova, a research associate from the Russian ...

The Catacombe di San Gennaro date back to the second century, but they became a pilgrimage site in the fifth century when San Gennaro – the patron saint who lends his name to the catacombs ...