Hundreds of skeletons found under Paris supermarket

CNN ^ | 3/3 | Ashley Fantz

[TangledUpInBlue]

Workers digging underneath a Paris supermarket have made an unsettling discovery: as many as 200 skeletons.

The grocery store, Monoprix, was doing some renovations in January and workers removing an underground wall discovered the bones. The area was apparently part of a cemetery for the Hospital of the Trinity, according to CNN affiliate, France's BFM-TV. The cemetery operated from the 12th century to around the 17th century.

Researchers and archeologists are conducting carbon dating and DNA testing to try to figure out when and why the people died, the affiliate said. It's clear they all died around the same time, lead archeologist Isabelle Abadie told BFM-TV, because of the way the bodies were neatly arranged

[TangledUpInBlue]

Must have been a big closet.....

[momtothree]

Really old dead bones ping....

[RckyRaCoCo]

That wasn’t chicken...

[Red Badger]

Bubonic Plague victims probably..................

[Timocrat]

Hundreds of skeletons found under Paris supermarket

Hillary's lost e-mails ?

[Snickering Hound]

[central_va]

[Pearls Before Swine]

Bubonic Plague victims probably..................

"Bring out your dead (Monty Python)." "And put them under the new supermarket."

[Alex Murphy]

The grocery store, Monoprix, was doing some renovations in January and workers removing an underground wall discovered the bones. The area was apparently part of a cemetery for the Hospital of the Trinity, according to CNN affiliate, France's BFM-TV. The cemetery operated from the 12th century to around the 17th century. Researchers and archeologists are conducting carbon dating and DNA testing to try to figure out when and why the people died, the affiliate said. It's clear they all died around the same time, lead archeologist Isabelle Abadie told BFM-TV, because of the way the bodies were neatly arranged.

Rumor has it they were all crushed by a falling grocery store.

[Tupelo]

France?
I am sure these deaths are the responsibility of Christians on high horses.

[Red Badger]

Did they vote in the last election?...................

[Zathras]

That is my thinking too.

[AnAmericanMother]

Most likely.

The simple fact is, in a site like Paris which has been inhabited for thousands of years, EVERYTHING is built over an old cemetery, hospital, church, dry well, or other place where people got buried many years ago.

Americans don't really "get" this because we just don't have many sites like that (Boston is one, because it's (1) old - as we count old; and (2) on a very restricted piece of ground).

“I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.”

- the Rubaiyat, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, illustrated by Edmund Sullivan.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[DooDahhhh]

Yep, there goes those Christians again. I think some Amish were also involved seated on their high horses as well.

[sphinx]

All died at the same time? Plague victims under the supermarket!!!!

[Albion Wilde]

It's clear they all died around the same time, lead archeologist Isabelle Abadie told BFM-TV...

"Bring out your dead!"

[Lockbar]

“I’m not dead yet”.

[Jack Hammer]

“Researchers and archeologists are conducting carbon dating and DNA testing to try to figure out when and why the people died...”

So... is someone suggesting they should still be alive?

[goat granny]

now that is funny.....