Close to the start of the ancient Appian Way in Rome is the earliest known underground cemetery in the city, a network of catacombs containing remains of early Christian believers, popes and martyrs.

, opens new tab prove there were women priests in early Christianity. The Vatican says such assertions are sensationalist “fairy tales”. The catacombs, on Rome’s Via Salaria, have been fully reopened ...

ROME - The earliest known icons of Apostles Peter and Paul have been discovered in a catacomb under an eight-story office building in a working-class neighborhood of Rome, Vatican officials said ...

A cameraman on Tuesday films a painting discovered with the earliest known icons of the Apostles Peter and Paul in a catacomb located under a modern office building in a residential neighborhood of ...

ROME (Reuters) - Vatican archaeologists using laser technology have discovered what they believe is the oldest image in existence of St Paul the Apostle, dating from the late 4th century, on the walls ...