PARIS, March 2 (UPI) -- More than 200 bodies found in a mass grave beneath a supermarket in Paris are likely renaissance-era victims of the plague. Archaeologists expected to find some human remains under Boulevard Sebastopol's Monoprix supermarket -- the site was known to have hosted a hospital's cemetery from the 12th to the 17th century. The large number of bodies surprised researchers since the graveyard was moved in the 18th century to the catacombs under the city.
"We thought that there would be a few bones as it was the site of a cemetery but we didn't think we would find a communal grave," Pascal Roy. director of the supermarket, told the Telegraph.