View of the Catacombs of Priscilla in Rome; Italy on May 2014. The catacombs were used for early Christians burials from the late 2nd? 4th燙entury. The labyrinthine cemetery complex stretching for 13 kilometers over several levels underneath northern Rome is known as the 'Queen of the catacombs' because it features burial chambers of popes and a tiny; delicate fresco of the Madonna nursing Jesus dating from around 230-240 A.D.; the earliest known image of the Madonna and Child. The museum presents 700 fragments of finely sculpted marble sarcophaguses that were discovered buried in the catacombs of Priscilla in 1890. PHOTO by Eric Vandeville/akg-images