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If you look up pictures of the Paris catacombs they're filled with stacks of thousands of skulls and bones with no apparent organization, identification or containment. Why were they made like this? How did the bodies end up in this condition, with their bones all separated and intermixed?

by /u/LorenzoApophis in /r/AskHistorians

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