To find catacombs, go to Rome, home of some of the oldest and longest burial underground tunnels in the world. "Hundreds of kilometers of catacombs run underneath the town and its outskirts," says ...

Deep below the streets of Rome lie the ancient catacombs where early Christians buried their dead and sustained hope for eternal life. About the same time as the persecution of Decius, middle of ...

The Catacombs of Rome were in use from the 1st to the 5th ... Important chambers, such as the Capella Greca in the Catacombs of Priscilla and the Cubicula of Sacraments in the Callixtus Catacomb ...

These places include the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, the Catacombs of Priscilla in Rome, Highgate Cemetery in London, ...