To find catacombs, go to Rome, home of some of the oldest and longest burial underground tunnels in the world. "Hundreds of kilometers of catacombs run underneath the town and its outskirts," says ...

The hidden half of the water system—sewers—took aqueduct overflow and flushed the refuse into the river, which damaged the river, but kept the city of Rome clean. Romans used tunnels to get to ...

Roughly four of every five miles of Rome's aqueducts run underground ... neither the construction of arches nor the burrowing of tunnels. We Romans built underground to hide and protect water ...

and examples abound of tunnels, drainage systems, and cisterns, sometimes of considerable size. Yet although the water management tradition Rome inherited was rich and extensive, no previous ...

A gang of thieves stole at least €500,000 (£421,000) worth of jewellery and watches from a Bulgari shop in Rome before disappearing into the city’s sewers with police in pursuit. The gang ...

Opening the Holy Doors of St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Eve, Pope Francis inaugurates a jubilee year expected to draw 32 million visitors to Rome.

Rome's ancient Colosseum has not had an arena ... exposing the underground network of tunnels where gladiators and animals were held before the Roman blood sports began. Mr Franceschini said ...

Pope Francis on Tuesday opens the 2025 Holy Year , kicking off a celebration of the Catholic Church that is expected to draw ...