Buy tickets to the Vatican Museums!

Tickets to the Vatican Museums are notoriously hard to get, so check at least a month in advance to see if tickets are available for the date you want to go. The museum does not issue tickets regularly, so if there is no ticket for the date you want to go, if there is more than 1 week from the date you want to go, don't worry, brush every day! Daaaaaa! Brush!!

To the company, brush! Go to the bathroom, brush! Have lunch, brush! Before leaving work, brush! There's a good chance we'll get a ticket. If the time is less than 1 week, it is likely that you can only buy high-priced scalped tickets (there may be no purchase).

Without further ado, get straight to the point - first open the Vatican Museums website - select tickets - Vatican Museums (first) select dates and number of people. Note that the Vatican Museums are free on Mondays, but only open in the morning!! There will be a lot of people! And from time to time there will be activities closed, be sure to check in advance!!

Ticket target, the first item of the museum ticket, or the fourth item in my picture, the guide ticket ordinary ticket, 25 per person, need to queue to enter; Guided tickets, 40 euros per person, no queues. Choose your favorite ticket, Book it directly, and then pay for it

I personally feel that the ticket price with a guide is good, expensive 15 euros (about 120 yuan less than) do not have to line up at the door, someone to take you to understand can rent a guide, there are Chinese, follow ta, he refers to which to listen to which 4. You can also walk by yourself
Finally, please note that tickets are not refundable once booked

The catacombs of Cosucarfa, an underground gathering place for the Romans

The most interesting Catacombs in Lower Egypt, the Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa. One of the seven wonders of the Middle Ages dating back to the 2nd century AD, the largest underground concentration of ancient Romans ever discovered in Egypt.

Kom el Shoqafa, meaning "Mound of Shards", is named for the large pile of clay fragments found in the area, left by people who visited the tomb: They brought food and wine to eat during the worship, but not wanting to bring these containers back home from this place of death, they broke them on the spot.

Accessed via a spiral staircase, the bodies of the deceased are lowered by ropes from the circular shaft at the centre of the catacomb, which was also discovered in 1900 when a donkey accidentally fell into the shaft.

When the catacomb was first built in the 2nd century AD, it was probably intended as a family tomb, but over the 300 years that the catacomb was in use, more chambers were cut away until it developed into a "hive" that could hold more than 300 bodies.

The Hall of Caracalla in the tomb contains horse bones, a tomb built in 215 AD for the emperor Caracalla's horses.

The entrance to the inner tomb is flanked by the serpentine god Agatheos (protector of Alexandria in Ptolemaic times), each snake wearing an Egyptian double crown (Pschent), holding a Greek staff (left: Thyrsus, right: Caduceus), and topped with a shield of Medusa.

The sarcophagus in the tomb is decorated with the heads of ancient Greek gods and garlands. The central sarcophagus relief shows Anupis (the ancient Egyptian god of death/funeral), dressed as a Roman soldier, mummifying a body lying on a lion bed, with three canopic jars (instruments used to preserve internal organs during mummification) placed under the bed. These are the embodiment of the fusion of ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptian cultural belief systems.

Pantheon: The Pantheon is a well-preserved ancient Roman temple known for its impressive dome. It served various purposes over the centuries and is now a church.

The Pantheon. Rome

The Pantheon was built during the reign of Augustus (27 BC-14 AD) by Emperor Hadrian, on the site of an earlier temple, and was completed in 126 AD. Hadrian chose not to inscribe the new temple, but to retain the inscription of the old temple of AGRIPPA: M. Agrippa L. F. COS TERTIVM FECIT

It has a latticed concrete dome with a central opening to the sky (eye hole) that allows rainwater to reach the floor through the ceiling. As a result, the interior floor is equipped with gutters and is deliberately sloped to facilitate water runoff.

According to various studies and historians, the Pantheon functions like a giant spherical sundial: throughout the day, light from the round hole at the top moves in a reverse sundial effect, marking the time with light.

The most interesting engineering feature is this unreinforced concrete domed building, which survived the fall of the Empire. No one has built a larger dome in the last 2,000 years, so it remains the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world.

The diameter of the entire temple structure is 43.3 meters (142 feet), which is exactly the same as its height, creating a perfectly balanced and visually stunning design. The construction technique of the dome, which uses lighter aggregates on the upper floors to reduce weight, has made it stand the test of time and become an important sign of the ingenuity of Roman architects and builders.

The secret of its age lies in Roman concrete: it is made of chunks of calcium carbonate called "lime chips", which were previously thought to be the result of poor mixing of concrete, but are now thought to have "self-healing" properties. Studies have shown that water seeps through cracks in concrete dissolves calcium carbonate, forming a solution that then recrystallizes to plug the gaps, a gem of ancient engineering.