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 ...

Milos is one of the most beautiful Greek islands, and is also the site of catacombs that tell the tragic story of early ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Catacombs of Saint Callixtus, the largest of the underground networks, was the official cemetery of the Church of Rome in the 3rd century CE and contained over half a million Christian burials.