Nineteen long and heavy boxes wrapped in a white shroud plunged this fall into the depths of the Etang des Sapins. Nothing dangerous or even very secret about this operation carried out in the Puy-de-Dôme by the regional archaeological service of the DRAC Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes. Because although they did trade with death, these dark chests were not strange torpedoes of a new kind, but sarcophagi dated from the Carolingian period (8th-9th centuries). These remains have reached the peaceful lake bottoms, in the commune of Issoire, after more than a millennium in Auvergne soil. A funeral translation which had only one function: their perfect preservation for future generations.
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Why then immerse, from November 30 to December 3, nineteen admirable thousand-year-old sarcophagi in the abysses of the dismal pond of Mayères d'Issoire?
In the shade of the Puy-de-Dôme massifs from which sometimes resounds the roar of deer, the meanders of the Allier ...
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