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Hey Jules, bring me another fifty skulls
While walking around Paris for the last month, I’ve became fascinated by the highly fossiliferous limestone that comprises so many of its iconic structures. At one point I thought, Hmm… The City of Light is built with materials of death. … Continue reading
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Tagged catacombes, Catacombs, Eocene, limestone, Lutetian, Lutetian limestone, Notre Dame, ossuaries, ossuary, Paris, quarries, quarry, Roman
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