PARIS — Paris’ underground bone collection, the catacombs, has been closed to the public indefinitely after being vandalized. Ordinarily, the creepy collection of human remains — cleared ...

Workers arrange human skulls and bones against a wall on December 12, 2023 during restauration work of Paris' Catacombs (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP) In gloomy burial tunnels under Paris ...

workers carefully stacked the bones and skulls of people killed during the French Revolution into a new, neater wall. The Paris Catacombs, the final resting place for several million Parisians ...

Under the modern streets of Paris, there's a system of catacombs that houses the bones of millions of people whose bodies were unceremoniously dumped down quarry shafts as the city expanded.

a team of technicians and artisans are working to restore a vast wall of skulls and other assorted human bones that make up part of the famed Paris Catacombs. The walls of bones, known as hagues ...

Beneath the romantic streets of Paris lies a realm shrouded in darkness—the Catacombs. Holding the remains of over six million souls, these labyrinthine tunnels harbor chilling secrets and ...

popularly known as the catacombs. The city began the process of moving millions of bodies from graveyards around Paris in 1786. It took 12 years to move all the bones from between 6 to 7 million ...

bones from the cemeteries of Paris were systematically transported in carts by night through the streets, then beneath the ground—although with Paris’s urban expansion, the catacombs were ...