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Archaeologists have reached the cellars of Paris's medieval residents. Below them lie Merovingian and Carolingian grain pits, from the 6th to the 10th centuries; below those, a dense Roman quarter from the 4th and 5th centuries.
More than a year after France's famed Notre Dame reopened, an archaeological exploration going thousands of years into the history of Paris has begun just metres below the cathedral's ground floor.
