SECRETS OF THE CATACOMBS.

The article focuses on a catacomb filled with niches for the dead discovered at the grand mansion of Italian noble Giovanni Torlonia in Rome, Italy in 1919 while installing an Etruscan-style tomb in the mansion's basement. Topics include the increasing number of catacombs that have been identified beneath the city of Rome due to advancing urban development and evidence that the catacomb at Villa Torlonia was used by Rome's Jewish population according to archaeologists.