{"id":60446,"date":"2026-06-13T17:49:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=60446"},"modified":"2026-06-13T17:49:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:49:58","slug":"whats-under-notre-dame-archaeologists-discover-artefacts-stretching-back-1700-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=60446","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s under Notre-Dame? Archaeologists discover artefacts stretching back 1,700 years"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Wilting in the summer sun, tourists wait to climb Notre-Dame Cathedral and meet its gargoyles.<\/p>\n

Four metres (13 feet) beneath them, a team of archaeologists is digging the other way \u2013 straight down and back in time, to Roman Paris nearly 2,000 years ago.<\/p>\n

In 2019, fire brought Notre-Dame\u2019s spire crashing down as the world watched. The cathedral was rebuilt and reopened in late 2024<\/span>, and now Paris wants to soften the hot, bare square in front of it with trees and shade.<\/div>\n

But in a city this old, the soil cannot be turned until what lies beneath it is excavated, in case it is damaged during the works.<\/p>\n

So a slice of Notre-Dame\u2019s forecourt has become an excavation site \u2013 an open pit ringed by barriers and crossed by a wooden walkway, a few steps from the queue.<\/p>\n

French media have dubbed it the \u201cdig of the century\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a rare opportunity for us to work on something that\u2019s tangibly going to make a difference to the history of Paris,\u201d says Lucie Altenburg, a conservator with the Paris archaeology unit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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