05-05-2024 10:00 via metro.co.uk

Inside the 200-mile-long ‘Empire of Death’ right below your feet

Well, you wouldn’t really be surprised to see a ghost down there, would you? (Picture: AFP/GETTY)In the middle of the 18th century, nowhere stank as much as Paris did.Sewage wasn’t the only reason for this. Instead, the streets of the French capital were filled to the brim with dead, rotting bodies.So, what’s the best solution? It’s obvious. Piles upon piles of bodies neatly crammed into a winding labyrinth that wriggles beneath the city that hundreds of years later becam
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