4th Century Coin and Mysterious Inscriptions found under Notre Dame Cathedral

More than a year after France’s famed Notre Dame reopened to the public, an archaeological exploration has begun. It delves into thousands of years of the history of Paris and is already dubbed by some as the “dig of the century”. All this is happening just metres below the cathedral’s ground floor. According to Lucie Altenburg, a conservator with the Paris archaeology unit, the excavation could develop understanding of the city’s past. Excavators have already uncovered hundreds of historical artefacts, including a 4th-Century coin stamped with the portrait of the Emperor Constantine and shards of medieval pottery painted on the inside with marks no expert has yet deciphered — like a modern Da Vinci Code.
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