Child’s Coffin Discovered at the Real Alcázar of Seville

SEVILLE, SPAIN—El País reports that the remains of a child were discovered under the floor near the main altar in the chapel at the Real Alcázar of Seville, a royal palace in southern Spain. The burial was found during work to restore the palace’s sixteenth-century ceramic tiles. The child, who was approximately five years old at the time of death, was placed in a wooden coffin inside a lead sarcophagus. Pieces of fabric, shoe leather, and two mother-of-pearl buttons we