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The Old Guard 2' is the latest action thriller to showcase the beauty of Rome, Italy, with scenes in the urban streets and ...
Popularized by the movie Indiana Jones, Rome's ancient catacombs are tinged with mystery.
Medieval Rome's 'Catacomb Saints' were posthumously excavated, bejeweled and sent across Europe It’s unknown who these people were in life, but their corpses were presented as saints in death.
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 ...
Rome’s catacombs will be open to the public for free guided tours and moments of prayer and reflection on Saturday, March 2.
Rome's catacombs will open to the public for free guided tours and moments of prayer and reflection on Saturday, March 2, as part of the 7th edition of Day of the Catacombs.
Hundreds of delegates took a break from their discussions of synodality to visit the catacombs of St. Sebastian and St. Callistus located on Rome’s ancient Appian Way on Oct. 12.
The oldest known image of the apostles Andrew and John have been discovered in catacombs under the city of Rome, dating back to the 4th century AD, archaeologists announced Tuesday.
Around 600 inscriptions from Rome’s Jewish catacombs have been documented in all, making up the largest collection of archaeological evidence from any early European Jewish diaspora community.
First of all, catacombs are a peculiar phenomenon in the area around Rome; they're always outside the city, as all burials had to be, but it's a peculiar geologic formation.