Hundreds of babies found in mass grave in ancient Athenian well were not victims of infanticide

A team of researchers using the latest technologies have come to startling new conclusions about the discovery of 450 dead babies and 150 dogs in an ancient Greek well.

The discovery of the baby’s bodies was made in the 1930’s by archaeologists investigating a well in what used to be the agora, or market place, of ancient Athens. The well had been hewn into the bedrock in an area of the city that is now a leafy, hilly space between the Ancient Agora Museum and the 2,400 year old Temple of Hephaestus. Inside it the archaeologists found the skeletons of hundreds of dogs and human infants. Around it, there had once been a number of metalworking shops and these have been found to contain numerous scraps of bronze.