The Mystery Of The 97 Baby Skeletons From Roman Britannia
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Archaeological finds from Roman Britannia include 97 baby skeletons buried near the Thames, a town in rural Devon, and a Roman cult figure that remained buried beneath a fort for 1700 years.
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I'm really disappointed, every time I see a new title that has just been released, I get excited as I expect something new about the subject only to find out that it is an old episode that has just been rerun with a new title.
Demand a refund ❤
Thanks, I’m glad I read your comment before wasting my time waiting for the answer to the mass baby issue.
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Make you own UA-cam channel with 100% unknown info.
Mee too constantly noticing it
I love these podcasts, if you want to complain don’t watch it ! Simple
I personally love reruns. I get to catch the ones I missed
This is right now one of the best Podcast ever seen or watched by me and the rest of the people who are all very much appreciated and helpful and informative and important about the Roman people and the, people are all British people.😮
Similar strategy in Steens Mtn Oregon - the prostitutes camped at a pleasant high elevation and the clients (usually basque sheepherders) converged. Arboglyphs carvings on aspen trees offered advertising, some quite explicit. Nearest major population area was a couple hundred miles away.
Hope they haven't found baby skeletons in the area.
@@2degucitasJust because a child died doesn't indicate murder. Infant mortality rates were insane
just goes to show the speculation from a single historian becomes fact unless unchallenged or proven otherwise
Really interesting, thank you 😀
Maybe it wasn't a brothel. If it was out-of-the-way away from population centers, maybe it was a place where unwed mothers were sent to hide their pregnancies. Once their babies were born, the babies stayed and the mothers went back to their homes.
I've seen other documentaries about that find and it's right over the hill from a Roman army garrison. There's a shit ton of strip clubs and hookers in Okinawa for a reason, and it's not because they like the culture and scenery in Northern Japan.
@@ArtGirl82 I'm a little confused by the Okinawa reference. I'm sure you have a point, but it went right over my head.
I was just going by what they said in this video that the site is away from populated areas and a brothel didn't really make sense. If it's near an army garrison, than that changes everything.
@@AllynHin Where the military goes, so does the world's oldest profession. It's as true today in Okinawa, where the US military has a huge base, as it was in Roman Britain.
If this is the same dig site I watched a documentary on (and I'm pretty sure it is) it's on the road to what was a large Roman garrison. And it might be in the middle of nowhere now, but it wasn't back then.
These historians are labouring to come up with an alternative explanation for a bunch of dead infants. When the answer seems to be the uncomfortably obvious one, that isn't anywhere as "school-trip friendly" as an ancient maternity hospital.
Since it's a Roman outpost perhaps soldiers were knocking up local women
@@2degucitas In the video, they speculated that the site was away from a local population center and not near an army outpost, hence the difficulty in declaring it a brothel. I was merely speculating what could account for the number of baby skeletons on the site if a brothel didn't make sense.
If there *were* Roman soldiers in the vicinity, there would be a local population (as a local population generally grows around a military outpost), then yes, it could be a brothel. Maybe you didn't understand what the word 'brothel' means.
Birthing Medical Center vs Brothel Debate: Honestly, it could be both.
There's a precedent for ancient people to practice sacred prostitution. Medicine and religion and sex were intertwined. Child sacrifice could include children who died naturally as well as unwanted children.
Could they have also had a birthing center AT a brothel? Nit necessarily a birthing center that respectable women traveled to, but surely those prostitutes would have sometimes needed some kind of pregnancy and birthing care?
while this was quite good, the title was definitely clickbait. and that seems wrong.
Thank you! Your comment saved me from watching this.
I want to watch these but I also wish they would just title it what it actually is so I don't have to watch five minutes in so I can know if I've seen this one already.
Very interesting, so much to learn about England.
Excellent, as usual.
Thank you.
16:00 Sounds like the equivalent of modern hourly highway-offramp motels.
Fascinating!
Love this I want to go on holidays and do a dig
Maybe it was like this: soldiers from roman legions could not have wives only concubines. Far away from home they took woman from the closest area. Concubines lived fare away from their familles but near the roman legion camp. Famillies probably were not very happy of this all situation because legionist was their enemis. Probably beacause of this this young ladies has no mother to help them during the pregnancy and birth. In this center they could find help and when child was dead was left in this center. It was like this. Older children were probably beried in the normal cementary. Sorry for my English.
Good explanation
Maybe they were eating the babies.
Wowwww thanks for sharing this discovery !!!! Truly mind blowing 😮😢watching from New York City
It would be wonderful to be part of the team to dig, and even though I live in America it’s part of my heritage too. Whenever they do dna at a dig I think it would be amazing to share to see if there are descendants.
These or similar skeletons were originally dug by Time Team in the early 2000s.
the metal garment at 32 min reminds me of Paco Rabanne's work
Due to date & title teaser, watching this video I realized its a repeat from 11 months ago. Yes, I understand they're repeating older video to grasp for donations of money in 2025. My bank account is zero, I'm never able to donate to UA-cam channels.
Why don't they DNA test the babies to see if they are all the same as the inhabitants of the time or they are locals mixed with sailors.
Even more interesting would be to use DNA profiles to find currently living relatives (albeit not direct descendents for obvious reasons).
Why does the archaeologist at 5:57 look like he's been in a fight?
My guess is a recent rugby game…
The customers were the Roman Navy
What about the merchant marine? Did they use different facilities?
Feeding Christians to the lions wasn't intolerance, it was prescience!
Wtf Dr Alice Roberts was in my hometown and I had no idea 😭
14:05 When I hear an archaeologist use the term 'absolutely' I switch off! Sad :(
You need to be taken in consideration the parasitic infections people had before you go around, just digging stuff up with your bare hands
Is that Dr. Roberts I spy? Yes.😎
Seems pretty obvious, this is the result of the unwanted babies of the brothels. 😢
Machu pechu - South America
Great Pyramid - mid East / West Asia
Ellora Cave Temple & lot more Temple - India / South Asia
Ankor wat - Sotheast Asia
all constructed by Aliens (as per westerners)
Now
Bones, skeletal remains, pieces of pottery - England
Even Aliens didn't bother to visit west (Europe) 😅😅
Do you think they were built by aliens?
We had a navy in 8500bc when stonehenge was constructed.
14 fire pits in wales date the quarry to 8500bc and the 1 meter round post holes along side the dry river next to the monument tells you they lifted the stones of boats 10k years ago. Farmers only turn up after the flood in 6200bc.
They don't build stone circles in the middle of a field, they sit on a bend in a river. So access comes by boat from one direction only. The river.
If the river is 2k away in 2500bc there's no point building the monument there.
I think 100s of pieces of evidence were brushed under the carpet for their dating to work.
Well I'm uncovering them and calling them out. They're not even half right. It's twice as old and built by WHG, using boats.
There's 8kyo charcoal under one stone. That alone renders the official dating complete nonsense.
WHG?
@HarduntheRanger that's western hunter gatherers. Those guys buried at newgrange. Would have made up all inhabitants of Britain untill farmers arrive from the east around 6000bc. The first wheat arrives with them. I didn't name them if I did I'd deny it lol
Wait....are you saying that white people had a culture? I thought we were supposed to pretend like that wasn't true. And are those white volunteers working to help uncover their culture and past? Isn't that contemporary rahhcissism?
Dude...go touch grass. You've been in a contrived internet nutter bubble too long and it shows.
Also - weird is a word applied to the line about the male Mithras cult (given that it was a military cult there is nothing whatsoever weird about it being male only) but no similar word used to describe the goddess cult which was female only.
BTW - I notice these things because they've been shoved in our faces for the past 20 years.
And again - evidence that white people were slaves of the Romans. Do we all get reparations from the current day Italians? Isn't that how this works?
Oh piss off
Oh please. Lose the chip it's rather sad and pathetic. All humans have cultures. I find the ones like you that cannot stop whining about other races being mean to them are the biggest racists.
Keep digging
You might reach to .....
Instead of a Brothel, could it have been a home for unwed Mothers ? Young women were sent away if they became pregnant without being married.
SRA
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The host is cute.
My body my choice
I am tired of UA-cam crap just seeking views! Most of this crap isn’t worth watching!