At a book party in another quarry ... Guillaumot was asked to put the bones somewhere—and so some Parisian quarries became the catacombs. Today Leparmentier and her team continue the work ...

Workers at the historic catacombs of Paris are rebuilding a wall containing remains of martyrs from the French Revolution. The massive underground gravesite houses up to 7 million bodies ...

The Paris Catacombs stretch beneath the city and contain the bones of an estimated six to seven million people. The tunnels, originally limestone quarries, were repurposed in the late 18th century ...

Not every inch of Paris is as romantic as you think – in fact, the Catacombs are downright chilling. Prior to the creation of the Catacombs in the late 18th century, Parisians buried their dead ...

The Catacombs of Paris are underground ossuaries (containers or rooms in which the bones of dead people are placed) in Paris, ...