I told you no pics!!

The best I can do, the ticket with a small photo of the ground level you enter before descending into the catacombs.

In this site well over 900,000 people are buried here, and more than half are children under the age of 3. In Ancient Rome times you were lucky to live to 25, most people died very young. I mean hygiene and living conditions were against a long life. Girls especially were at a disadvantage, children were expensive and many women had many. If you gave birth to a girl your father had the option to drop you off outside the city to die or maybe someone would pick you up.

As for the catacombs of course money and prestige buys you better options. The very poor was dug into walls in large rooms, while the rich had private rooms. Bodies were naked wrapped in white cloth. We were on the first level down, you walk in this tight space holes in the walls where bodies once lied. You can really get lost, this level has lights and an aeration system installed. The other levels are kept locked, because in 1578 an explorer found an opening to the catacombs and identified over 30 entries. He wrote a book of his discovery. Unfortunately, other people also found out about this and money was to be made digging up bones, frescoes and whatever could be sold. At least the two lower levels will remain intact. There is a very high level of humidity in the catacombs which does destroy the environment. Fascinating… a place Reid and I would have never thought of going to.