Mass grave with over 200 skeletons found below Monoprix supermarket in Paris

#Monoprix #Paris #ParisCatacombs #MassGrave #CarbonDating The management at the Monoprix supermarket in Paris wanted the basement cleared for redevelopment and, archaeologists while digging at the site unearthed a mass grave in which more than 200 skeletons were buried neatly.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 2 March 2015.
The supermarket is located above the site of a medieval hospital that had its own cemetery, but from appearances, it is felt that most of the bodies must have been shifted to the Paris Catacombs in the 1700s.
It is understood that the archaeologists found a total of eight pits. The first seven of these had around five to 20 bodies each while the last one held more than 150 bodies. These were piled head to toe in two rows up to six bodies deep. In the opinion of the lead archeologist, the bodies could be from a major mortality crisis like some sort of an epidemic. This cannot be ruled out because Paris had been hit by multiple plague epidemics between the 1300s and the 1500s, and later by smallpox struck in the 1600s.
There are plans to carry out carbon dating and DNA analyses on the remains to understand the situation better.