The Vatican is now making it easier for members of the general public to visit the Vatican Necropolis, a Roman burial ground located a few feet beneath St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The more than ...

A new section of an important historic burial site beneath Vatican City is open to the public for the first time. The Necropolis of Via Triumphalis offers visitors a look at how the ancient Romans ...

The Vatican is now making it easier for members of the general public to visit the Vatican Necropolis, a Roman burial ground located a few feet beneath St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The more than ...

The Vatican has opened an extensive necropolis to the general public that was open only to groups of scholars and students before.

Vatican Opens Hidden Underground Roman Necropolis to the Public Via Triumphalis is now accessible through a new separate entrance at the Vatican Museums’ Santa Rosa gate. Rhea Nayyar November 20 ...

In the month Catholics traditionally honor the dead, the Vatican Museums opened a new entrance to an ancient necropolis where carved marble sarcophagi sit near open graves filled with bones. In the ...

Another map shows Lucifer's tomb in a section of the Necropolis that was constructed in pre-Constantinian times. "This is important because in the 300s C.E., Lucifer was not a reference to Satan.

Some of the most world's most important Catholic landmarks are set to close themselves off to tourists in the coming days as the Vatican prepares for the funeral of Pope Francis and begins the ...

A gate along the Vatican's walls has been opened, providing a new entrance to the Via Triumphalis Necropolis, an ancient Roman “city for the dead”.