A performance of "Running Joke/Paper Machete" from Queens of the Stone Age’s new concert film Alive in the Catacombs was aired Thursday on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Over time, the Christian catacombs were forgotten and neglected before being rediscovered in the 16th century, beginning with the first excavation of the Catacombs of Priscilla in 1578.

Medieval Rome's 'Catacomb Saints' were posthumously excavated, bejeweled and sent across Europe It’s unknown who these people were in life, but their corpses were presented as saints in death.

The catacombs also contain early depictions of Jesus and his Apostles (in the Catacombs of Domitilla), Jesus alongside Peter and Paul (in the Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter), and the earliest ...

On Saturday, October 12, on the occasion of the VII Day of the Catacombs and in preparation for the Jubilee, the Vatican will open some Roman catacombs usually closed to the public, such as St.

“Agent in Heaven.” “St. Philomena” was “discovered” on May 24, 1802 in the catacomb of St. Priscilla on Rome’s Via Saleria Nova as the skeleton of a 13-to 15-year-old girl with a ...

On March 2, several of Rome’s most prominent catacombs will be open to the public including the Catacomb of Priscilla, the Catacomb of St. Agnes (where the third-century Roman martyr was buried ...

Rome's catacombs will open to the public for free guided tours and moments of prayer and reflection on Saturday, March 2, as part of the 7th edition of Day of the Catacombs.