2,000-Year-Old Graves Found Near Notre Dame During Excavation for Train Station Expansion

Preventative excavations have uncovered a tranche of graves over two thousand years old on Paris’s Ile de la Cite, the current home of Notre Dame Cathedral, El Pais reported last week.  The excavations are being carried out ahead of the expansion of the Port Royal station of the Paris RER B commuter train.50 graves were found at the site, which was once the Roman town Lutetia, home to Gallic Parisii tribe. Lutetia’s cemetery, known as the Saint-Jacques necropolis,