6,000-year-old broken ribs discovered in Syria may be one of the oldest known cases of child abuse in the world

According to Live Science, archaeologists studying a roughly six-thousand-year-old infant burial in Syria have identified broken ribs that may mark one of the oldest documented cases of child abuse yet found in the Middle East.

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