es arranged very artistically in a cross or other pattern. Most of the stacks of bones rose to a height of about 5 ft.
786 because real estate was scarce and the cemeteries were becoming severely overcrowded. The government decided to reclaim the large areas of land used for cemeteries by relocating the remains of the departed citizens to the empty limestone quarries, whose tunnels were at that time on the outskirts of town. The process of disinterring the bones from the cemeteries, moving them solemnly into the quarries, and arranging them there took several decades. No attempt was made to identify or separate individual bodies.
By the time the relocation was finished in 1860, an estimated five to six million skeletons had been moved to the catacombs.
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