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 a historic burial site beneath Vatican City has been unearthed — and now it's open to the public for the first time. The Necropolis of Via Triumphalis offers visitors a look at ...

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 Museums has newly opened to the public an ancient necropolis stocked with carved marble sarcophagi and bone-filled open graves of everyday ancient Romans. The word necropolis comes ...

Since the Vatican was an area of uneven hilly terrain, a huge platform, nearly 800 feet long and almost 300 feet wide, was built on top of the ancient Vatican necropolis on the Via Cornelia to ...

The Vatican broadens public access to an ancient Roman necropolis In the past, tours of the ancient burial site were generally only granted to approved academics, students and other specialists. Share ...