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Add Texture to GoogleA few dozen meters from the forecourt of Notre-Dame, in two courtyards of the Hôtel-Dieu, archaeologists have uncovered a layer that Paris thought it had lost. For generations, researchers and historians have searched for the Gallic Lutetia on the Île de la Cité without ever truly finding it. The island’s subsoil had been dug up, rebuilt, and redeveloped over the course of two thousand years, to the point that layers predating the Roman conquest seemed to have vanished. But this summer, a wall emerged from the ground: about twenty meters of stone and wood, scarred by fire and dating from before our era. This is enough to reopen—with tangible evidence this time—one of the oldest
