6,000-year-old broken ribs discovered in Syria may be one of the oldest known cases of child abuse in the world
The fragile and battered remains of an infant who lived about 6,000 years in Mesopotamia may be the oldest documented case of child abuse from the Middle East and one of the oldest known cases of its kind in the world, a new study finds. Researchers unearthed the infant's remains…
bubmagJuly 7, 2026