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 ...

Archaeology & History 5 Facts About the Ancient Roman Necropolis That Borders the Vatican, Now Open to the Public. The site was previously only accessible to scholars and specialists.

Visitors to the Vatican will soon be able to descend into an ancient world of the dead, a newly unveiled necropolis that was a burial place for the rich and not-so-affluent during Roman imperial rule.

VATICAN CITY - In the first century B.C., ... 320 A.D.,” said Giandomenico Spinola, an archaeologist specializing in Greek and Roman periods and the curator of the Vatican necropolis. ...

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 ...