France: The Discovery of a Gallo-Roman Cemetery of Children Makes Us Revisit the Ancient Funeral Rites
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In Auxerre, 150 km south-east of Paris, the discovery of a Gallo-Roman cemetery calls into question our beliefs about the burial of children. An ancient necropolis was discovered in the city centre during the transformation of the city. It contained more than 260 bodies of infants, indicating that these little humans were also entitled to burial and funeral rites, contrary to what history had taught us.
It is before an urban redevelopment, as required by the law on the Place du Maréchal Leclerc in the city of Auxerre, that archaeologists of the National Institute of Preventive Archeological Research (INRAP)... Article 260 Gallo-Roman burials of babies discovered in Auxerre: the amazing respect of our ancestors for the stillborn appeared first on Current Values.
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