200 bodies found in mass grave beneath Paris supermarket

Archeologists discover the remains of more than 200 people believed to have died from the plague hundreds of years ago



The archeologists from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) plan to carry out DNA tests on the remains

More than 200 bodies have been found laid out in neat rows in a communal grave beneath a supermarket in central Paris.

The site was formerly the cemetery of a hospital that functioned from the 12th to the 17th century but it was believed the corpses had been moved in the 18th century to the Paris Catacombs which house the bones of six million people transferred from the city's cemeteries 200 years ago.

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