Discover how Paris’s ancient quarries, once used to build the city, transformed into one of the world’s largest underground graveyards. From collapsing streets to overcrowded cemeteries, uncover the chilling history behind the Paris Catacombs and the millions of skeletons resting beneath the City of Lights.

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References

Author Unknown (2024) “The Ossuary”, Les Catacombes de Paris. https://www.catacombes.paris.fr/en/history/ossuary

Deps, P. D., Collin, S. M., Robin, S., & Charlier, P. (2020) “Leprosy in skulls from the Paris Catacombs”, Annals of Human Biology, 1–6. doi:10.1080/03014460.2020.171

Lau, R., Bellido, M., Reichert, A., & Leung, E. Y. C. (2017). “Transforming Catacombs and the City of Paris: The Spatial Relationship Between the Home for the Living and the Dead”, Dynamics of Community Formation, 237–248. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-53359-3_12

Schmeidler, K. (2022) “Prevalence of Wormian (Sutural) Bones in the Paris Catacombs Ossuary”, The FASEB Journal, 36. 10.1096/fasebj.2022.36.S1.R5654.

Willsher, K. (2024) “‘Bodies were dropped down quarry shafts’: secrets of millions buried in Paris catacombs come to light”, The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/19/bodies-quarry-shafts-millions-buried-paris-catacombs

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