Vatican invites tourists to the kingdom of the dead

On Monday, the staff of the Vatican Museums, in collaboration with archaeologists, led main tourist group recently discovered necropolis, buried rich and influential citizens of the Roman Empire. Soon everyone will be able to visit room filled with urns and sarcophagi. In a special glass, the skeleton of the child is considered that the care of parents with an egg as a symbol of rebirth. The skeleton, and a symbol, have been restored by archaeologists. "We have long known in the mausoleums of Hadrian and Augustus, but so far we have no idea how the middle class had been buried," says museum director Dzhanzhdomeniko Spinola. "You can understand the story, knowing that kings and generals," said the leader of a group of archaeologists, Paolo Liverani. Paul Kirchhof is decorated with black and white mosaics and other decorations, as figures of a satyr and Dionysus. In the vicinity of some of the sarcophagi are installed sculpture. In the initial phase of the cemetery will be limited to organized groups of tourists who have been granted in the Vatican. If the route is very popular to expand access to the burial of the ancient Romans. Tourua.com