Catacombs
The cities of the dead beneath cities. Rome's Christian catacombs, the Paris ossuary and its six million, the Capuchin crypts, Odesa and Naples, and the tunnels people later used to hide, smuggle or party in.
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15 moments in this segment.
- - Disposition des os dans les catacombes, 1816, D.16744. Auteur(s): Forbes, James (Londres, 1749 - 1819), dessinateur Date de production: En 1816 Type(s) d'objet(s): Dessin, Arts graphiques Dénomination(s): Dessin Dimensions - Oeuvre: Hauteur: 21.4 cm Larg.
- - Le puits, ou source de l’oubli, aux Catacombes, 1816. D.16748. Auteur(s): Forbes, James (Londres, 1749 - 1819), dessinateur Date de production: En 1816 Type(s) d'objet(s): Dessin, Arts graphiques Dénomination(s): Dessin Dimensions - Oeuvre: Hauteur: 15.4 cm Larg.
- - Paris Catacombes 008. Besucher in den Katakomben von Paris, Zeichnung (Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts). Period photograph.
- - Catacombes - Fontaine de la Samaritaine - estampe - APMartial (Potémont) - btv1b84574460. Sujet: Puits Paris (France) -- Catacombes Paysages -- 19e siècle Collection: [Ancien Paris]; 271 Collection: [Ancien Paris]; 271 Éditeur: [Cadart et Luquet; Potémont] (Paris). Period photograph.
- - Vue d'une des parois d'une galerie de l'Ossuaire des Catacombes, 1893, PH10012. Auteur(s): Anonyme, photographe Autre titre: Galerie de l'Ossuaire, Catacombes, 14ème arrondissement, Paris. (Titre factice) Date de production: En 1893 Type(s) d'objet(s): Photographie, Arts graphiqu.
- - FDT rue Saint-Jacques. Inscription "FDT" on the wall of a restaurant 163bis rue Saint-Jacques, Paris 5th arr. FDT = Fief Des Tombes (=Fief of the graves) is the former name of Catacombes. Modern photograph of an ancient site.
- - The Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome. Smarthistory reads the painting programme of a late 2nd to 4th century Christian catacomb.
- - Residents of the catacombs of Paris. There are approximately 6 million residents of the catacombs of Paris. Remains were moved here starting in the late 1700s after cemeteries within the city walls were filled. Modern photograph of an ancient site.
- - The Christian catacombs of Rome. The tufa galleries beneath the city, their burials and their painted decoration.
- - The hidden history of the catacombs of Rome. What the Roman catacombs actually were, and how much of their popular story is later invention.
- - Catacumbas, París, Francia, 2022-11-01, DD 111-113 HDR. Catacombs of Paris, France. These underground ossuaries hold the remains of more than six million people. It was created beginning in 1774 as part of the effort to eliminate the effects of the city's. Modern photograph of an ancient site.
- - Secrets beyond the grave: beneath Paris. A documentary episode on the quarry network under Paris and the ossuary it became.
- - Touring the Paris Catacombs. NBC descends 65 feet with a historian to see the ossuary beneath the city.
- - New discoveries in the Christian catacombs of Rome. A research update on the history, imagery and epigraphy of the Roman catacombs.
- - The history of the Paris Catacombs. How the 18th-century clearance of the Cemetery of the Innocents filled the disused limestone quarries with six million dead.