second thing on the last day in rome

The second thing we did was visit the catacombs. By anchient Roman law everone had to be buried when they died. Since the Romans did not like the Christians, the Christians could not be buried inside the city walls. That is where the catacombs came in. The Christians were buried in the catacombs. The catacombs were a 40 foot underground crypt dug through soft lava. There were many tunnels and paintings in the hallways. Each nich along the sides of the tunnels that people were buried in contained an oil lamp and a marble plaque with a prayer and information about the person.
The tomb we visited was one out of 60 catacombs. Just the one we visited had 30 miles of tunnel.