Mausoleums in the Vatican Necropolis with temporal classification of buildings

Published at 512 × 252 in The Vatican: Rome of the Popes
Wikimedia Commons: Mogadir - Pietro Zander; Fabbrica di San Pietro (Hrsg.): The Necropolis under St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.2010

In 1940 the Vatican started excavating the ground underneath the Basilica which revealed parts of a Necropolis dating to Roman times

Wikimedia Commons: Mogadir – Pietro Zander; Fabbrica di San Pietro (Hrsg.): The Necropolis under St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.2010

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