Renovation Project Reveals 38 Medieval Skeletons in Paris Basement
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="schema:primaryImageOfPage og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Renovation-Project-Reveals.jpg?itok=nBe_pF-8"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Renovation-Project-Reveals.jpg?itok=nBe_pF-8" width="610" height="354" alt="Skeletons in the cellar in Corbeil-Essonnes" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:description content:encoded"><p>A man living in the Paris suburb of Corbeil-Essonnes was working on a renovation of his basement when he unearthed something chilling. It was the remains of what was clearly an ancient human skeleton, which had apparently been buried directly below the site where his home had been constructed many centuries following this individual’s death.</p>
<p>The French homeowner contacted the authorities to report what he had discovered, and it was quickly concluded that his find was archaeologically significant. Researchers from the Regional Archaeology Service of Île-de-France were soon dispatched to the site to launch an official exploration, and what they ultimately recovered exceeded their wildest expectations.</p>
<p>During a series of excavations carried out by <a href="https://www.archeodunum.com/qui-sommes-nous/" rel="nofollow">Archeodunum[/url] in four separate sections of the basement, covering 560 square feet (52 square meters) of floor space, the archaeologists unearthed <a href="https://www.archeodunum.com/squelettes-cave-corbeil-essonnes/" rel="nofollow">
38 skeletons[/url], 10 of which were encased in
plaster sarcophagi typical of early medieval burials. The remainder were buried in less elaborate wooden coffins placed inside pits, indicating that they’d lived and died in an earlier period.</p>
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