The Catacombs Research Paper

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Paris the city of love as most people know it also where you can find many stores and famous museums but do most people know what lies 20 meters below Paris a place where there are remains of almost 6 to 7 million people. You can say it's a labyrinth because it's like a dark maze of galleries and some narrow passage ways where visitors can see the table of death where bones are arranged in a display dating back to high roman taste. This underground burial place is called The Catacombs. In eighteenth and mid nineteenth centuries graveyards where being closed down because of Public Health Issues and the remains of the people were taken to The Catacombs. Inside The Catacombs are some dead historical figures in there because bones from the churches