Deep below the streets of Rome lie the ancient catacombs where early Christians buried their dead and sustained ... where they slide the body in place. Those are the cheap burials.

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

To their astonishment, they found the bodies of the 43 friars naturally ... thousands of people had themselves buried in the catacombs. As the cost of the entire mummification process was ...

Central Mexican “Storm God” depicted on altar with bodies buried underneath Researchers base their belief that the 1,700 year old altar wasn’t the work of Maya craftsman on decorations still ...

Bodies of Christians were exhumed from ... During this time, pagan, Jewish and Christian citizens of Rome were buried across more than 60 catacombs below Rome – five of which are open to the ...

Prior to the creation of the Catacombs in the late 18th century, Parisians buried their dead in cemeteries ... It took years to move millions of bodies from all the Parisian graves.

"They used to grow larger and larger around the tombs of saints because people asked to be buried near their religious leaders." All Christian catacombs in Rome are property of the Catholic Church ...