Life expectancy and history
Tombstone from Rome, 400s AD - Life expectancy How long did people live? Throughout the ancient and medieval worlds, people died much younger on average than they do in North [...]
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Infanticide and exposure in history
Infanticide? Pasiphae holds the baby Minotaur What is infanticide? From the Sumerians down to the time of Augustine, all over Europe and Asia, most people agreed that if you had a newborn baby [...]
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History of the family
History of the family: Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, in a medieval ivory carving Were families the same as they are now? Families in the ancient world were very different from [...]
