Archaeologists discovered a burial vault at the Church of Saint Philibert in Dijon, France, after following a lost staircase. Inside the coffins were remains, rare coins and rosaries.
Before the French Revolution, at the end of the 1700s, the Catholic Church had a strong presence in France. By then, many monumental churches had been built all over the country, a symbol of the ...
Photo from Christophe Fouquin and Inrap Archaeologists restoring a medieval church in France uncovered a forgotten staircase. They followed it and found themselves in a 400-year-old vault ...