🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
Catacombs of Rome
Ancient Rome
The Catacombs of Rome (Italian: Catacombe di Roma) are ancient catacombs, underground burial places in and around Rome, of which there are at least forty, some rediscovered since 1578, others even as…
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Portus – Imperial Harbour of Rome
Roman Imperial (42 CE – 6th century CE) · Roman
Rome's vast Claudian and Trajanic artificial harbours now inland through siltation, once Rome's maritime gateway.
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
Catacombs of Domitilla
The Catacombs of Domitilla are an underground Christian cemetery named after the Domitilla family that had initially ordered them to be dug.
🇮🇹 Italy · Archaeological wonder
Lateran Palace
The Apostolic Palace of the Lateran (Latin: Palatium Apostolicum Lateranense), informally the Lateran Palace (Latin: Palatium Lateranense; Italian: Palazzo del Laterano), is an ancient palace of the…
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
Catacomb of Balbina
The Catacomb of Balbina or Catacomb of Mark is a catacomb between the ancient via Appia antica and via Ardeatina in the Ardeatino district of Rome.
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
Catacomb of Pontian
The Catacomb(s) of Pontian is one of the catacombs of Rome on the Via Portuensis, notable for containing the original tombs of Pope Anastasius I (399–401) and his son Pope Innocent I (401–417).
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
Catacomb of Priscilla
The Catacomb of Priscilla is a large archaeological site on the Via Salaria in Rome, Italy, situated in what was a quarry in Roman times.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Antikythera Wreck — Mechanism and Bronze Statue Reef
Late Hellenistic (c.70–50 BCE) Roman loot shipwreck from Asia Minor to Rome 60 m Greek art cargo · Roman late Hellenistic loot ship (Pergamene? Rhodian stones) 60 BCE
Antikythera sponge 1900, Cousteau 1976, Mechanism found 1901.
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
Catacomb of Calepodius
The Catacomb of Calepodius (also called the Cemetery of Calepodius) is one of the Catacombs of Rome, notable for containing the tombs of Pope Callixtus I (ironically, the creator of the Catacomb of…
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
Catacomb of Callixtus
The Catacomb(s) of Callixtus (also known as the Cemetery of Callixtus) is one of the Catacombs of Rome on the Appian Way, notable for containing the Crypt of the Popes (Italian: Cappella dei Papi),…
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
Catacomb of Saint Thecla
The Catacomb of Saint Thecla is a Christian catacomb in the city of Rome, near the Via Ostiense and the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, in the southern quarter of the ancient city.
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Catacomb of Saints Processus and Martinian
The Catacomb of Saints Processus and Martinianus is one of the catacombs of Rome. Sited on the via Aurelia, no ancient remains have been conclusively identified as being it.
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Catacomb of San Pancrazio
The Catacomb of San Pancrazio (also called of Ottavilla) is a catacomb of Rome (Italy), located in the Via Aurelia, within the modern Quartiere Gianicolense.
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
Catacomb of Sant'Ippolito
The Catacomb of Sant'Ippolito is a catacomb on the via Tiburtina in Rome, now entered from via dei Canneti in the modern Nomentano quartiere.
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
Catacombs of Commodilla
The Catacombs of Commodilla or Catacombs of Felix and Adauctus is a three-level underground burial complex forming one of the catacombs of Rome.
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter
The Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter are found approximately three kilometers from southeast Rome and the ancient Via Labicana, and date to the 4th century AD.
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
Catacombs of Saint Agnes
The Catacomb of Saint Agnes (Italian: Catacombe di Sant'Agnese) is one of the catacombs of Rome, placed at the second mile of via Nomentana, inside the monumental complex of Sant'Agnese fuori le…
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Catacombs of San Sebastiano
The Catacombs of San Sebastiano are a hypogeum cemetery in Rome, Italy, rising along Via Appia Antica, in the Ardeatino Quarter.
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
Commodilla catacomb inscription
The Commodilla catacomb inscription is found on the cornice of a fresco in the tomb of the Christian martyrs Felix and Adauctus, located in the catacombs of Commodilla in Rome.
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
Fractio Panis
Fractio Panis (English: Breaking of Bread) is the name given to a fresco in the Greek Chapel (Capella Greca) in the Catacomb of Priscilla, situated on the Via Salaria Nova in Rome.
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Triumphal Arch of Orange
Ancient Rome
UNESCO World Heritage Site commemorating veterans of Rome's Gallic Wars
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Andriake – Silk Road Harbour of Myra, Lycia
Classical to Byzantine (400 BCE – 800 CE) · Lycian / Greek / Roman / Jewish / Christian
Myra's sea-gate where St Paul changed ships — Hadrian Plakoma granary beside 350 m basin now 2.5 km inland from delta silt.
🇷🇺 Russia · Temple complex
Antoniev Monastery
The Antoniev Monastery ("St Anthony's Monastery", Russian: Антониев монастырь) rivalled the Yuriev Monastery as the most important monastery of medieval Novgorod the Great.