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Date: January 29, 2007 7:01:30 PM PST
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Subject: Tombs of Christians Buried 60-100 AD Unearthed at Rome
Nostradamus -- Century III-65
When the sepulchre of the great Roman is found,
The day after a Pontiff will be elected:
Scarcely will he be approved by the Senate
Poisoned, his blood in the sacred chalice.
Nostradamus -- Century VI-66
At the foundation of the new sect,
The bones of the great Roman will be found,
A sepulchre covered by marble will appear,
Earth to quake in April poorly buried.
The Times October 10, 2006
Vatican's hidden burial place sheds light on all ranks of Roman
society
From Richard Owen in Rome
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2396172,00.html
THE VATICAN has unveiled a remarkably preserved 2,000-year-old
burial ground discovered inside its walls, complete with frescoes,
mosaics, mausoleums and Latin headstones.
The necropolis, with 250 tombs containing the bones of pagans and
Christians, is described as second in importance only to that
beneath St Peter’s Basilica, which contains the tomb of St Peter.
It came to light three years ago, when workers uncovered tombstones
with Ancient Roman inscriptions during excavations for a three-
storey car park.
Francesco Buranelli, director of the Vatican Museums, said that
putting the necropolis on show formed part of the celebrations for
the 500th anniversary of the museums, founded in 1506 by Pope
Julius II, patron of Michelangelo and Raphael.Giandomenico Spinola,
the archaeologist in charge of the Vatican dig, said work on the
site — which he described as a “small sepulchral Pompeii” — was
continuing. From Friday, though, visitors will be able to view the
500sq m necropolis from a walkway, in groups of 25, for €5 (£3.38)
a head.
From the walkway, they can look down on skeletons including that of
an infant buried with a hen’s egg. The egg, whose smashed shell was
reconstructed by archaeologists, might have symbolised hopes for a
rebirth, an official said.
The burial sites help to “document the middle class, which usually
escapes us”, said Paolo Liverani, an archaeologist. “You don’t
construct history with only generals and kings.”
Cardinal Francesco Marchisano, head of the Pontifical Commission
for Sacred Archaeology, said that digging below ground in Rome was
always problematic because of all the wonderful things that were
down there. “We have here the resting places of all ranks of Roman
society, from the noble to the humble.”
Conservation work so far has cost €400,000, paid for by the
Vatican. Professor Spinola said that the tombs, on what was once
the Via Triumphalis, ranged from the 1st century BC to the 4th
century AD, with wealthier Romans buried in decorated mausoleums
and the less well off in simple graves.
In Roman times Vatican Hill, across the Tiber from central Rome and
set above a circus used by the emperors Nero and Caligula, had two
burial grounds, one on Via Cornelia — believed to be the site of St
Peter’s grave — and one on Via Triumphalis.
One headstone in the newly found necropolis marks the last resting
place of Alcimus, one of Nero’s slaves, who according to the
inscription was in charge of maintaining the scenery at the Theatre
of Pompey.
Vatican scholars said that the burial ground had been so well
preserved partly because of a landslide at the end of the 2nd
century AD which covered much of it. The mosaic floor of one
mausoleum depicts Dionysus, the god of wine, propped up by a satyr.
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