City of the Dead: Paris Catacombs Hid 6M Skeletons

The Paris Catacombs weren't just a cemetery—they became a subterranean city of six million skeletons. In 1786, overflowing graveyards and contaminated groundwater forced engineers to turn an abandoned limestone quarry into the world's largest ossuary.

Workers lowered skulls and femurs into the dark, arranging bones into walls and geometric patterns. Aristocrats and peasants, children and elders, all reduced to anonymous fragments—an eerie, silent museum of mortality beneath the streets of Paris.

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