basilica. digging was conducted in secrecy and at night so no one would hear anything above in the basilica it wasn't long before workman made a significant discovery. soon a vatican archaeologist was overseeing the operations for the find was a christian tomb and ultimately a handful of clones was on earth it was only twenty five years later that pope paul the sixth announced the remains of st peter had been found below the vatican. after the great fire nero set about reconstructing the destroyed districts two thousand years later not much of his efforts has survived the ruins of an insulating a multistory department block. in nero's days such tenements were groundbreaking both in terms of architecture and city planning as a way of providing housing for the growing population of. nero made his mark on the