Saturday, May 21, 2016

Artistic bone stacking

The French invented the word bureaucracy and they should also be credited with elegant storage of dead people's bones... all six million of them! In the Paris catacombs which once were limestone quarries are now laid to rest (for the second time) the bones from victims of plagues and diseases, revolution and government insurrection put downs, and many Parisian cemeteries that were relocated due to expansion of the city going back 300 years. Skulls and tibbias form the main artistic components with lesser bones thrown in behind the wall. We are here some 60 ft beneath the southern part of Paris and walked two miles of underground bone storage tunnels ! Macabre!

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