The objects are indeed real – they are the centuries-old skeletal, human remains exhumed from Rome's underground catacombs.

was something that most families practiced in the city of Rome. So, we have to imagine as part of their daily life, as part of their regular activity, Christians, just like their pagan neighbors ...

They're just different. They're foreign. [W]e have a good example of this kind of pagan perspective on Christians from a little graffiti found in Rome from the Palatine Hill. It shows a man ...

said this was an era when the Roman Empire, which had become officially Christian by AD380, was "in freefall". "We know the Anglo-Saxons of this period are pagan and they are moving in and ...

This fragment shows a peacock, a popular subject for Roman artists being the bird of Juno, the Queen of Heaven. They symbolised immortality in both pagan and christian art. This object and some ...

This fragment shows a peacock, a popular subject for Roman artists being the bird of Juno, the Queen of Heaven. They symbolised immortality in both pagan and christian art. This object and some ...