A Czech insurance company halted plans to build an underground parking garage in downtown Prague after what is believed to be the city’s oldest Jewish cemetery was discovered at the site. The cemetery is estimated to be nearly 750 years old, 200 years older than Prague’s famous Old Jewish Cemetery.
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