Jewelry, shells, flint… Under the square of Notre-Dame de Paris, the Seine delivers 150 secrets saved from the waters

The rusty helmet of a soldier from the First World War found near the Henri-IV bridge (IVth), Paleolithic flints used for butchering animals, a mammoth tusk which tells of the presence of large mammals on the banks of the river during the ice age, ex-votos, jewelry... In the archaeological crypt of the Île de la Cité, under the square of Notre-Dame de Paris (4th), the exhibition “In the Seine, objects found from Prehistory to the present day” reveals nearly 150 objects collected in the river and on the banks of Paris and its surroundings.

Some come from the collections of the Carnavalet museum (4th arrondissement) dedicated to the history of Paris, others have been loaned by an individual.

Some still come straight out of the legendary glass cabinet of the River Brigade of the police headquarters.

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