Indre, France, recently revealed nine pits containing the skeletons of at least 28 horses. The creatures were all adult males ...
The massive underground gravesite houses up to 7 million bodies transferred there after centuries of cemetery overflow. More from News Workers at the historic catacombs of Paris are rebuilding a ...
Not every inch of Paris is as romantic as you think – in fact, the Catacombs are downright chilling ... burial grounds ran out of space, graves started to become exposed and stunk up surrounding ...
The typical grave is 6 feet down. Most Olympic swimming pools are 10 feet deep. Nile crocodiles dig burrows as deep as 39 feet deep. The Paris Catacombs are 65 feet underground. The ancient city ...
"I love the patina—not all white and clean," he says. Behind the neat stack of skulls, tibias, and femurs in the Paris catacombs lies a chaos of bones. In the 18th and 19th centuries the city ...
Meier has researched graves for years, crawling through tunnels to the depths of the Paris catacombs, shining her flashlight into the chaos of skeletal remains that look to her like the mouth of hell.