Historians have suggested that babies could be killed soon after birth as attempts to control family size.
Scientists have found that the Romans did not live burial of children for the purpose of offering them as sacrifices, killed for the control of settlements.
It was impossible to determine after scanning the bones of children in Ancient Roman times.
Experts said that many children were stillborn, and was later buried, like all the other healthy people who die in a natural way.
The tiny bones of babies found in cemeteries around the UK, allows to claim that the Romans were cold-blooded killers. But the researchers, using an innovative method of bone scanning showed that these tiny bodies had not been victims of brutal infanticide.
Instead, it appears many stillborn children who were buried in cemeteries together with other adults, suggesting that they mourn their families.
X-ray microtomography is a non-destructive method that allows access to the internal vision of an object without cutting the sample.
Visualization method based on the property of x-rays which can pass through the material and be absorbed depending on the nature and density of the components that they traverse.
Historians have suggested that babies could be killed soon after birth as attempts to control family size or to produce a desired gender among children. The study was conducted under the guidance of scientists from the natural history Museum of London.
