The origin of Paris: I saw the 2,000-Year-Old Secret Beneath Paris

Podcast: The Earful Tower: Paris · Oliver Gee

Opublikowano: 2026-10-05

An ancient Gallic wall was recently unearthed, after being buried for two millennia beneath the Hôtel-Dieu hospital, on the Île de la Cité. I managed to talk my way in and sit down with Julien Avinain, chief of Paris's archaeological city council department, for an exclusive tour and interview. What he showed me rewritten the history of Paris itself - a stone and wood fortification built by the Parisii tribe, the physical proof archaeologists have been searching for of where this city truly began. The wall won't survive - it has to come down for...