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2026-04-11 Science & Technology

2,500-year-old infant mass grave cracks open enigma of biblical-era baby burials

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1 “Four or five children out of seven died before they turned four,”

It remained high till the beginning of the 20th Century and modern medicine. Given that there was no old age pension system before then, your family took care of you. If you were without offsprings, you were on your own. Due to the infant mortality, the women had to have many pregnancies to insure the family's future. That in turn resulted in deadly complication resulting in a much lower life expectancy. The "who needs men" feminist ignore what those male physicians did for their health and life expectancy.

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2 Ignaz "Did you wash your hands?" Semmelweis

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3 Massacre of the Innocents

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4 Baby-killing was one of the things the Romans found so revolting about Carthage. When the Catholics discovered the Aztecs going the same, they put an end to them. Even after the Catholics called to stop the killing, the victims of the Aztecs kept going, and going, and going.
One of the reasons God expelled the Hebrews from Israel and into Egypt was breaking their covenant, worshiping other gods, idolatry and child sacrifice to Moloch(Ba'al, god of rain). This broke the First Commandment, handed down to Abraham.
Deuteronomy 28
The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand.

Carthago delenda est!

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