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The team located a fresh find of artifacts that illuminates Roman cultural views on the afterlife.

Archaeologists in Romania uncovered 34 Roman‑era graves and rare artifacts during a preventative dig ahead of building a new ...

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An internal view of the Necropolis of Via Triumphalis south of Vatican City (photo by Carole Raddato via Wikimedia Commons) For the first time, the Vatican Museums network in Italy will grant direct ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pit tomb with a skeleton surrounded by rocks uncovered near Amorosi, Italy. An ancient necropolis discovered near Naples, Italy ...

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 ...

Italian archaeologists recently uncovered a "monumental necropolis" that appeared to honor an elite class of people thousands of years ago, provincial officials announced this month. The ancient ...

On a cold, windy November day among the graves and tombs of long-gone souls, Annette Mullen is full of life about the future of Glasgow's Necropolis. "The memorial to firefighters who lost their lives ...

A team of archaeologists discovered the remains of an ancient Roman necropolis tucked under the Croatian city of Zadar, uncovering roughly five centuries of burials comprising more than 3,000 graves.