A Forgotten Staircase Led Archaeologists to a 400-Year-Old Burial Vault

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Restoration work reveals burial vaults and layers of history under the Church of Saint-Philibert in Dijon, France.

The Discovery Started With Restoration Work

The Staircase Had Been Forgotten

The Vault Was Around 400 Years Old

The Burials Were Simple

Children Were Buried There Too

Older Medieval Tombs Were Also Found

Even Earlier Sarcophagi Appeared

The Church May Sit on Older Sacred Ground

Damage Helped Reveal the Past

The Site May Still Hold More Secrets

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The discovery began not as a hunt for a hidden tomb, but as restoration work inside the Church of Saint-Philibert in Dijon, France. Beneath the damaged floor of the centuries-old church, archaeologists found a forgotten staircase that led them into a sealed burial vault, opening a route into layers of history that had been covered for generations.

What made the find more powerful was not only the 400-year-old vault itself. As the excavation continued, researchers uncovered older slab tombs, sarcophagi, masonry, and funerary evidence suggesting that the site had been important long before the present Romanesque church was built in the 12th century.

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