St. Peter's Grave Site - Original Shrine

This is a reconstruction of the shrine which once stood over a grave believed to be that of St. Peter.  Twentieth-century excavations, ordered by the contemporary pope, rediscovered what was left of the shrine more than 1600 years after it was first erected.

Credits

Illustration from The Bones of St. Peter, by by John Evangelist Walsh, Doubleday & Co, New York (1982).  Image online, courtesy Saint Peters Basilica.org.