The Haunting History of the Paris Catacombs

An animated lesson tracing how Paris's overcrowded Cemetery of the Innocents led to the vast underground ossuary known as the Catacombs.

A crisp, eerie animated history of how millions of Parisians ended up beneath the city streets.

Take a tour of the vast, underground network of the Paris Catacombs, and find out how this 18th century cemetery came to be.

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