The history of how the catacombs came into existence is quite unusual. From the early middle ages until the late 1700s as Paris grew into a major city, cemeteries were built throughout residential and merchant areas in a haphazard manner.
Read MoreRome was once the capital of an empire that ruled most of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East for five centuries and built dozens of important cities in its image all around the Mediterranean.
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