Archaeologists discover historical artifacts during Notre Dame Cathedral restoration

[zqwerty]

Old news but may be of interest to some readers:

https://www.ijpr.org/npr-news/2022-04-16...estoration

[nzoomed]

Wow, that's interesting, I'm assuming there must be an update somewhere by now on what they found inside?

[zqwerty]

Experts Reveal Who are Inside the Mysterious Sarcophagi Found Beneath the Notre-Dame Cathedral

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ex...234651356/

[Lilith7]

Experts Reveal Who are Inside the Mysterious Sarcophagi Found Beneath the Notre-Dame Cathedral

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ex...234651356/

Intriguing; one was a priest who had a rich diet, the other an avid horse rider who may have had TB.

Probably both 'nobility' since poor people don't often tend to be buried in important places.

[zqwerty]

I find this far more interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo

I was looking for a link to a church graveyard which had to be moved and the bodies were found to be in much better health than expected when they died, put down to be because of living close to animals and the earth and having good diets.

Olden day folks were taken to be in worse health than us in general these days but this proved not to be the case at least for the group of graves that were dug up and analyzed before being reburied.

I know I have read about this at length but found the above link instead.

[Lilith7]

The Sutton Hoo site's really interesting, beautiful metal work, they think it must have been done by a master goldsmith.

[Agent_24]

a church graveyard which had to be moved and the bodies were found to be in much better health than expected when they died, put down to be because of living close to animals and the earth and having good diets.

Olden day folks were taken to be in worse health than us in general these days but this proved not to be the case at least for the group of graves that were dug up and analyzed before being reburied.

Makes sense to me, most of the trash that is sold as "food" these days is anything but.

And none of them were sitting around in front of a computer for all hours a day, which we already know is not good for you either.