Very near our inns, in entrance of Notre-Dame, the Archeological Crypt of the Ile de la Cité has simply opened a brand new exhibition explaining the historical past of Paris via a lot of objects discovered within the Seine over the ages, and there are fairly a number of….
The Seine clearly performed a necessary function within the improvement of Paris, and it’s fascinating to go uncover the historical past of the town from way back to the prehistoric period, thanks to things discovered within the water or on the river’s banks.
This new exhibition presents round 150 of those objects, with explanations from a variety of archeological researchers, masking the primary human settlements to the current day.
Among the many objects on present, you’ll have the ability to see flints from the Paleolithic period, a ceramic goblet from the 2nd/third century, a statuette of Apollo from the gallo-romaine interval, a double-edged struggle axe head from the Merovingian interval, an inkwell from the fifteenth/Sixteenth century, the top of a marble staue from the twentieth century…
Every object tells us one thing in regards to the metropolis, its inhabitants, its commerce…
Across the exhibition,
— varied guided visits gives you extra data on the exhibition, the Crypt and life in Lutetia, and different embrace a workshop or storytelling (in French),
— the Crypt’s free app is on the market in English and spotlights fifteen factors of curiosity within the exhibition,
— and a French catalogue of the exhibition (128 pages, 25€) is on the market right here out of your native Amazon.
And as shocking as it’s that a lot remains to be being discovered within the Seine, you may be amused to be taught that the Crypt itself was solely found within the 1960! Again then, Notre Dame was black from air pollution, and the sq. in entrance of the cathedral was simply an enormous automobile park!
The exhibition The Seine – Recovered Objects From Prehistory to the Current Day is on the Archeological Crypt of the Ile de la Cité (right here) till thirty first January 2025
Open on daily basis besides Monday from 10am-6pm
Admission: 9€ / 7€ / free for under-18s
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