This winter the archaeologists of the INRAP (National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research) have found a special necropolis in the historic centre of Auxerre (French State), a Roman cemetery for newborn babies or stillbirths. - Oh, good! The necropolis used between the first and third centuries consists of five chronological levels, which confirms the high infant mortality rate at that time.

In addition, researchers have found that burial was a multi-phase care process that buried newborns with valuable and protective objects of very different value. In other words, despite the practice of the fact, they did not leave the corpses without further delay than in the city of Autessiodurum.