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Archaeologists Link Infant Remains to Roman Brothel

Fossils of 97 human babies found buried around Roman ruins in southern England have led archaeologists to a surprising conclusion: that the settlement was home to a brothel.Québec dofus kamas http://www.fcsgame.com/In Roman times, infant mortality was high and it's not uncommon to find the remains of infants at archaeology sites. But the number of babies found buried at one Roman site in the Thames Valley in Buckinghamshire, northwest of London, is higher than at any other site in Britain, which was once part of the Roman Empire. Examining the skeletons, archaeologists concluded that "the infants almost all died around the time of birth, suggesting this may be an example of deliberate infanticide," the Buckinghamshire County Council said in a statement carried by several news agencies.

"The only explanation you keep coming back to is that it's got to be a brothel," archaeologist Jill Eyers told the BBC. Without contraception, unwanted pregnancies were likely common at Roman brothels, she said. cheapest dofus kamasAt the time, the systematic killing of unwanted babies might not have been as shocking as it would be today. In Roman times, it was actually legal to kill a baby if its mother was a slave who needed to keep working instead of tending to her young. Archaeological records also suggest that infants weren't considered to be "full" human beings until about 2 years old, Eyers said. cheap metin2 yangThe site, known as Yewden Villa, is believed to have been a wealthy enclave of Roman villas occupied between the first and fourth centuries.It was first excavated in 1912, but a report on archaeologists' finds didn't appear until 1921 because of World War I. That report, published in the journal Archaeologia, described the site as "positively littered with babies."Maple mesos"A few were laid at length, but the majority were evidently carried and buried wrapped in a cloth or garment, huddled in a little bundle," the report said, according to CNN. "As nothing marked the position of these tiny graves, a second little corpse was sometimes deposited on one already in occupation of a spot, apparently showing that these interments took place secretly, after dark."buy dofus kamasThe site was later covered over and became a barren field. Now researchers are using DNA testing to analyze the site for the first time, hoping to determine the gender and possible family ties between the babies.