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French culture ministry says Paris wall may confirm Lutetia's location

A Gallo-Roman wall found under a Notre Dame-area hotel could settle where the ancient Gallic settlement of Lutetia stood.

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  • A roughly 65-foot (20m) stone-and-wood wall was found under a Paris hotel near Notre Dame, on the Ile de la Cite
  • Culture Minister Catherine Pegard calls it possibly "one of the most important remains ever discovered for understanding Gallic Lutetia"
  • Fire traces on the wall are carbon-dated to 10-200 B.C., a range that includes the 52 B.C. Battle of Lutetia recounted by Julius Caesar
  • The find bears on a long-running dispute over whether ancient Lutetia was centered on the Ile de la Cite or in Nanterre, though officials say function and chronology still need verification

“Scientific caution still requires that we verify its function and its chronology, but the convergence of evidence is particularly remarkable at this stage”

Catherine Pegard, French Culture Minister · CBS News / Le Monde (via AFP statement) ↗ · Sep 22

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French culture ministry says Paris wall may confirm Lutetia's location
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    Culture ministry announces the find, calls it a major breakthrough

    France's Ministry of Culture publicly announced the discovery, saying the wall may be a fragment of the ramparts of Lutetia built by the Gallic Parisii tribe, with fire-trace carbon dating (10-200 B.C.) potentially linking it to the 52 B.C. Battle of Lutetia described by Julius Caesar.

    “We may be looking at one of the most important remains ever discovered for understanding Gallic Lutetia…”
    — Catherine Pegard, French Culture Minister
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    Wall unearthed beneath Paris's Hotel-Dieu during excavations — Archaeologists discovered a roughly 20-meter (65-foot) stone-and-wood wall dating from the Gallo-Roman period beneath the Hotel-Dieu on the Ile de la Cite, near Notre Dame Cathedral, during excavations conducted over the summer.

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