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| Tango01 | 22 Jul 2020 2:37 p.m. PST |
…chapel wall. "Osteological remains believed to date to the French Revolution have been found in the wall of the Chapelle Expiatoire, a memorial chapel dedicated to King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette built on the site of a cemetery where they were buried after they were guillotined. Aymeric Peniguet de Stoutz, the chapel's administrator, turned historical detective after he noticed curious anomalies in the walls between the columns of the lower chapel. Anxious not to damage the building's foundations, the French authorities called in an archaeologist, who inserted a camera through the stones in the walls. In his report, archaeologist Philippe Charlier confirmed Peniguet de Stoutz's hypothesis: "The lower chapel contains four ossuaries made of wooden boxes, probably stretched out with leather, filled with human bones," he wrote. "There is earth mixed with fragments of bones."…"
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