Christian catacombs

It has a few antiquities and some curious Christian catacombs.

The zone contained ancient christian catacombs.

Historically ampoules were used to contain a small sample of a person's blood after death, which was entombed alongside them in many Christian catacombs.

For those who want an early historical start, the Christian catacombs of Rome are featured in a Web site (www.catacombe.roma.it/ welcome.

Huge sums were spent in the discovery of Christian catacombs, for which Pius created a new archaeological commission in 1853.

At La Grazia Christian catacombs have been found (Not.

Christian catacombs dating to the same period reveal bodies were piled-up hurriedly in a manner indicating a public calamity.

The activities of these pontiffs coincided with a rediscovery of the ancient Christian catacombs in Rome.

The cemetery was extensive, and was comparable to Etruscan cemeteries and Christian catacombs.

Rome is a city built on its own bones, where even the Christian catacombs on the Via Appia qualify as mainstream tourist attractions.

She ducked under a low stone archway, its dark surfaces busy with graven images, and found herself suddenly plunged underground into the early Christian catacombs beneath Rome.

September 20 - Giovanni Battista de Rossi, Italian archaeologist, famous outside his field for his rediscovery of early Christian catacombs (born 1822).

The symbol has also been found in the Christian catacombs of Sousse, Tunisia (ancient Carthage), which date from the end of the first century AD.

It encompasses more Christian catacombs from around the 4th century, a WWII air-raid shelter, a baroque chapel, religious icons and vestments, and changing art exhibitions.

Early Christian catacombs as well as Roman era villa remains, were also discovered in Marsaskala, the latter suggesting that Marsaskala was also a Roman port.

S. Vittorino is important because the ancient Roman city of Amiternum and Christian catacombs were discovered in the local church of S. Michele Arcangelo.

The Christian catacombs are extremely important for the art history of early Christian art, as they contain the great majority of examples from before about 400 AD, in fresco and sculpture.

Responsibility for the Christian catacombs lies with the Pontifical Commission of Sacred Archaeology (Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra), which directs excavations and restorations.

The list of monuments up for adoption is impressive, including early Christian catacombs, medieval towers, Baroque churches, Art Nouveau villas and even Palermo's largest theater, which has been closed for years.

Besides Augustine, the only proof we have of Punic-speaking communities at such a later period is a series of trilingual funerary texts found in the Christian catacombs of Sirte, Libya.

It was essential to Dada, and it was certainly present in the Christian catacombs and other underground meeting places where persecuted sects communicated their religious messages in the most direct visual way possible.

The popular conception that the Christian catacombs were "secret" or had to hide their affiliation is probably wrong; catacombs were large-scale commercial enterprises, usually sited just off major roads to the city, whose existence was well-known.

There are considerable remains of an amphitheatre and a theatre, all of which belong to the imperial period, while on the hill of the surrounding village of San Vittorino there are some Christian catacombs.

It is worth devoting a day to the excursion to include visits to the splendid Baroque towns or to explore the prehistoric necropolis and the early Christian catacombs carved into the cliffs at Cava d'Ispica.

Outlaid with some 75,000 sq ft of mosaic work and a crypt modeled after early Christian catacombs, the (literal) crowning glory is a dome that could have been lifted off the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.