Like a French remake of Poltergeist, a homeowner in Corbeil-Essonnes on the outskirts of Paris has discovered that his house was built on an ancient burial ground. The owner was doing some renovation in his cellar late last year when he stumbled on a skeleton. The Regional Archaeology Service responded with a full excavation of the four rooms in the cellar and uncovered 38 graves dating from the 3rd to the 10th centuries A.D. The burials were distributed across the four rooms of the basement, most of them arranged in parallel rows. The deceased in the Late Imperial era graves were buried on their backs in wooden coffins that were then buried in a deep pit. The wood has decomposed, but there are traces of the original form of the coffin in the pit. The rows were maintained, with only a slight shift eastward between Late Antiquity and the Merovingian era. There are 10 plaster sarcophagi characteristic of the Merovingian period (476 to 750 A.D.), placed side by side in a fan pattern. While some of the plaster sarcophagi found elsewhere were decorated on the exterior walls, none of the 10 in the cellar have decorated walls. One of the sarcophagi has a lid — a block of soft stone — that is engraved. The lid is broken, but it is possible to discern part of a rose window, a Latin cross and a cross inside a circle. The presence of a medieval cemetery in this neighborhood has known since the 19th century when the first plaster sarcophagi were discovered, but there was no formal excavation or scientific study of the remains. This is the first comprehensive examination of the burial ground, and the age of the most ancient graves prove that the cemetery was in use much earlier than previously realized. The remains have all been removed and transferred to a laboratory for further study.