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Rome
In January 897, Pope Stephen VI ordered the corpse of Pope Formosus pulled from its grave, dressed in papal vestments, and seated on a throne to stand trial. He had been dead for seven months.
Rome
Julius Caesar was killed in the Curia of Pompey, not the Senate House. The site is now Largo di Torre Argentina — buried for centuries, excavated in 1929, and open to visitors since 2023.
Paris
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Paris
The Paris Catacombs are two kilometres of a 280-kilometre quarry network. In 2004 police found a cinema in the tunnels. No one has ever identified who built it.