There is still original Constantine fabric in the walls, while the original foundations are exposed beneath the church. There have been various efforts to reconstruct it since then so we wanted to pull together all of this information.
Supported throughout by the British School at Rome the team - drawn from Newcastle University and the universities of Florence and Amsterdam and the Vatican Museums - have been able to bring the splendour of successive transformations of the ancient city to life.
The church, the Pope's own cathedral, was originally built in the 4th century AD by Constantine – the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. Positioned on the Caelian Hill, the church would have dominated the Roman skyline at the time.
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