Coffin 7 centuries at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris: The body looks like it died yesterday

A number of mysterious lead tombs and coffins, possibly dating from the 14th century, have been discovered by scientists after the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in 2019.

A new announcement from the French Ministry of Culture says the fire has exposed burial sites of "remarkable scientific significance". The graves were excavated during preparations to rebuild the central spire of the ancient church.

According to Science Alert, the most remarkable artifact that has just been unearthed is a lead coffin, shaped like a human, possibly made for an important dignitary who lived in the 1300s.

The lead coffin has just been unearthed

When using a small endoscope camera to try to peer inside the coffin through a small warp, what the archaeologists recorded was truly shocking.

"You can see pieces of cloth, hair and, above all, a pillow of leaves on top of the head, a phenomenon that is well known when religious dignitaries are buried," said Dr. Christophe Besnier, head of the archaeological team. know.

The plant elements are preserved intact indicating that the condition of the body must be extremely good, it will be just as if it had just passed away. Maybe it was the completely sealed structure of the lead coffin that kept the people inside from all the destruction of time.

The location of the coffin is rather strange: during the preparation of the scaffolding, the reconstruction team discovered an underground heating system, and the coffin was located between the brick pipes of this heating system. .