It seemed like rain was about to fall on the heads of the crowd bunched around Paris’s Canal Saint-Martin. Every one of the dozens of pairs of eyes was transfixed on the phenomenon that had been unearthed. The authorities were draining the muddy water from the man-made river, and all were desperate to see what lay beneath. Just what was it that the canal had buried for so long? As it turned out, more than two hundred years’ worth of mysteries lay waiting for the Parisians. But what could have drawn such a large crowd?

When A Parisian Canal Aged Two Hundred Years Was Drained No One Could Believe What Was In There
