Vatican Museums

And it was used to get the sweat off of their bodies after a race or after exertion or something like that.

This statue is now in the Vatican Museums.

That's how important of a sculpture it is.

And it was found in the late 1800s.

Lots of times, yeah.

Especially when I was learning to be a tour guide.

I went on maybe 10 different tours of the Vatican museums.

which was really eye-opening, especially because people say different things.

This is unbelievable.

These connections include the St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican Museums, allowing for the secure transport of documents or artifacts.

And then we are told that many administrative and religious buildings within Vatican City are interconnected through underground tunnels and pathways, facilitating discrete movement and secure communication, also connecting to private vaults.

There are underground vaults and repositories where sensitive documents, artifacts, and relics from the old world, this is where they are stored.

Where the Vatican Necropolis was used for a very long time, probably 2,000 years ago, maybe

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again off of this burial site we saw this in new york as well in episode 77 remember we were told that this location is connected to the vatican museums right over here to the right zooming way out here is the museums and here is the vatican can you even imagine what is going on under the ground here If you were able to remove the layer of ground right here and see what's underneath it, I think that it would change everything right here in this location alone.

I believe that this area would change the world in a second if all you did was just expose what's underneath it.

Today, I'm talking, uh, with, uh, Liz Lev, who is the author of, uh, How Catholic Art Saved the Faith and several other books.

Uh, Liz is a well-known tour guide, and she consults for the Vatican Museums on art and faith itineraries.

And, uh, she's also been a Vatican analyst for NBC and has appeared on the Today Show, Nightline, and 60 Minutes.

She wrote tons of super interesting books.

She's also a very well-known tour guide.

If you happen to be in Rome, uh, please check her, uh, website for tours because they are amazing.

And she consults also the Vatican Museums on art and faith itineraries and has, uh, been an, an analyst, uh, appeared on NBC Today Show, Nightline, and 60 Minutes.

So we're really blessed to have you join us today, uh, Liz.

you? Which room would this be?

In the Vatican Museums, in the room where there is the School of Athens.

I have never been to the Vatican Museum.

I've never been to

Then, as he approached the shore, he saw her, a woman, maybe 30, sleeping on the beach, her head and shoulders on a smooth rock, her legs on another, as though a split boulder had created a chaise.

Except for the light green two-piece bathing suit, she was the image of Sleeping Ariadne, the marble Roman statue in the Vatican Museum.

With her left arm draped over her head, she was the image of the Greek goddess, the archetype of the abandoned woman who eventually gets her man.

A fine drift of sand in a small mound carried by the morning Sirocco had settled across her tanned and oiled bare midriff.

Not much has changed there for 2,000 years except for we've added a few cars in instead of horses or whatever they had, and chariots.

But we have, we do have mass tourism now, although I do really remember being in the Vatican Museums when I first went, thinking, "Oh, my goodness, this is a nightmare," because it was very, very busy even then.

And I don't believe it was...

The first time I think was in, like, that I was in Rome would've been October, November timeframe.

I mean, I have a home there.

The police will often come on the train or be in the train station or be wherever, and just everybody's-- You gotta show 'em if they ask you, so yeah.

You also need to show them now to go into the Colosseum and the Vatican Museums, and a lot of the ticketing sites require that you have ID that matches your ticket.

So it's a requirement.