Talk:Castel Sant'Angelo

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Question: What happenened to Hadrian's ashes? Was his tomb left alone during the various architectural changes that took place? Does it exist in any form today? Is there an ossuary?

Good question -- I just added a sentence on that to the article in case you want to see. I couldn't find anything definite. All that I could find is that the urns of imperial ashes have been missing for over a thousand years. There was never an ossuary to my knowledge -- that is a box that holds bones, whereas an urn is a smaller container holding ashes. Mlouns 06:13, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Encyclopedia Romana on the Lacus Curtius site (linked from article) says that the Goths scattered the ashes in 410 when they sacked Rome. Mlouns 06:34, 10 January 2006 (UTC)