Adriano Morabito agrees. "We don't expect any great discovery from Roman catacombs. Early Christians didn't bury objects with the dead. As for now, we have only found inscriptions and human remains." ...

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...

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 discovery marks one of many ancient Roman finds in Europe in recent weeks. And in March, Italian archaeologists found ancient Roman tombs during the excavation of a necropolis, including one ...

In 2024, the remains of an ancient structure that may have once housed the papacy were discovered in Rome during renovations for Jubilee. Archaeologists uncovered walls that date back to between ...

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 ...