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Entries from January 24th, 2011

National Geographic: Paris Catacombs

January 24th, 2011

‘Behind the neat stacks of skulls, tibias, and femurs in the Paris catacombs lies a chaos of bones. In the 18th and 19th centuries the city dug up millions of skeletons from over-flowing cemeteries and poured them at night into old quarries.’ National Geographic, Paris Catacombs: Paris has a deeper and stranger connection to its [...]

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