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Saving Notre Dame’s Iconic Stone Vaulting

Season 49 Episode 13 | 2m 53s

The water used to fight a fire at Paris’s iconic Notre Dame Cathedral and months of rainwater damaged the Cathedrals’ stonework but a team of geologist have a plan to save it.

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