The Yewden Villa at Hambleden was excavated in 1912
The Yewden Villa at Hambleden was excavated in 1912
Look around. This country aborts a million a year, they ain’t all prostitutes... technically.
They also discovered the words “Planned Parenthood” chiseled into a ancient stone marker at the site
As appalling as the story is ... at least they had the decency to bury them. We discard aborted fetuses as “medical waste”.
SnakeDoc
“infanticide may not have been as shocking in Roman times as it is today”
Only because of Christian morality, a vestige of which exists in the neo-godless. For now.
It was common. The teachings of the Apostles speaks against it, and abortion.
Anyone who thinks this isn't the next objective of the “progressive” left is a nitwit. EVERYTHING in their agenda so far leads towards the values of ancient pagan society.
We need to keep our powder dry and prepare to defend the little ones. Even if this means a full-on civil war and 50 million dead leftist vermin. It needs to be STOPPED!
I remember reading a letter from a Roman soldier in the field to his wife in Rome. He asked how she was doing in her pregnancy and that if the baby was a girl, to kill it, but if a boy, let it live. He said it as casually as telling her how to pay the cable bill.
I wonder if, in a thousand years, archeologists will be unearthing Planned Parenthood dumpsters and concluding that Planned Parenthood was a brothel-chain... this would also be investigated by linguists because of the apparent anomaly of the word “parenthood.”
What goes around, comes around. Everything old is new again and there is nothing new under the sun. Just make sure no one knows it happened before and you can see anything to anybody. It’s those damned historians we have to be careful of. Don’t write anything down. If you have to make a note, swallow it when you’re done. Can’t let the cat out of the bag.
Mass infanticide is common in places with considerable prostitution, and was seen as one of the biggest reasons to outlaw prostitution.
However, there is a twist to this. “Those societies that worshiped Baal or the many Baal variations – such as Kronos in Carthage, engaged in the sacrifice of children.”
“In Sparta, the community leaders, called Ephors, inspected newborns for defects. Unwanted females and males with obvious defects were flung into a ravine. The Egyptians also practiced infanticide, leaving the unwanted newborn at the village dump.”
“It was the Romans, however, that established a series of laws regarding abandonment.”
“Abandoned children were often taken by childless couples or speculators that raised such children as slaves, profiting from their sale. Some of these children ended up as prostitutes. Several admonitions made by early Christian Church Fathers against abandonment because at some future time fathers might use prostitutes that might have been their children. This was the sin of incest.”
More information:
http://roman-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/abandonment_infanticide_in_ancient_times
I knew a Vietnam veteran who had the terrible duty to police up dead babies. The prostitute district was just upstream of his military base, and the prostitutes would throw unwanted infants, usually of American soldiers, into the river. Their bodies would wash up on the shores of the base, where he would have to collect them. This soon gave him a nervous breakdown.
This is a stupid statement. Romans were infamous for "exposing" unwanted babies -- just put them out on the curb with the trash (presuming they had trash pickup). If other people wanted the baby because they were childless, or wanted a slave, they could take them home. Otherwise, they died of starvation, or cold.
It is the CHRISTIAN religion and the rise of CHRISTIANITY that made this practice anathema. Remember that. It was the CHRISTIANS that made it unlawful to kill a child. And many years later, it was CHRISTIANS who prohibited child labor. And CHRISTIANS who began to educate children, including females.
The farther away from Christianity our culture gets, the worse it will be for all children and the rest of us too.
liberals...
proudly killing babies since Roman times.
That doesn't strike me as a "brothel" especially out on the fringe of the Empire in Britain. This is a ways from London or another population center, so I'm thinking a "high class" high-volume brothel isn't the explanation. Infanticide was practiced in pre-Christian Rome, but why so many on this villa? And why "under" walls and structures? I suspect a different explanation. They all appear to be newborns. Was a population being punished? Perhaps in relation to the rebellion? Was there a famine or epidemic and decision to get rid of all newborns? We don't have any data as to age. Were these burials over a period of centuries? If so, maybe the number isn't so shocking.
BTW, it looks like a charming little village.
