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Beneath Notre Dame Cathedral Archaeologists Discover More than 1,000 Artifacts and Statues

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Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris has reopened, and all the West rejoices with her.

However, during the extensive restoration, a team of archaeologists was allowed to dig under the foundations as far as the anchor points of the scaffolding, under a French law that allows archaeological digs to occur for preservation of what may lie underfoot.

Scientists can dig “to detect and undertake the scientific study of archaeological remains (on land and underwater) that might otherwise be destroyed by land development work,” according to the law, and the remains, in this case, proved to be 100 graves, and 1,000 statue fragments along with valuable insights into the foundational layers of the famous building.

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