The ancient cemetery, which is thought to date to the 1st-3rd centuries, contains more than 250 burials.
Archaeologists have unearthed a huge Roman cemetery containing more than 250 burials of infants and stillborn babies.The ancient necropolis was uncovered in Place du Maréchal Leclerc—a square in the historic center of Auxerre, a city in France—during excavations conducted by the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research .The cemetery—thought to date to the 1st-3rd centuries A.D.
'A few necropolises for very young children have already been excavated in France, but archaeological sites hardly ever reach this scale,' Gaëtan and Fossurier said.The remains identified at the Auxerre site almost exclusively represent those of children under one year of age—a group whose mortality rate was high in antiquity.
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