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 ...

It may be surprising to learn that just outside Rome’s city walls, there is an extensive system of underground tombs that stretch for an estimated one thousand kilometers. These catacombs mark a ...

The objects are indeed real – they are the centuries-old skeletal, human remains exhumed from Rome's underground catacombs. But Catholic church leaders falsely identified the elaborately ...

The site was officially consecrated in 1786 as the "Paris Municipal Ossuary" and soon became known as the Catacombs, inspired by the ancient burial sites in Rome. The Catacombs span approximately ...