Bone by bone, workers restore Paris catacombs

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Workers at the historic catacombs of Paris are rebuilding a wall containing remains of martyrs from the French Revolution. The massive underground gravesite houses up to 7 million bodies transferred there after centuries of cemetery overflow.

The history of the Paris catacombs, the city's underground tunnels of death home to over 6 million corpses

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A photo of a skull with crossbones inlaid into a wall of bones.
A skull in crossbones is inlaid into a wall of bones.

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