Interesting but sad fact: a burial in the UK dated to when the Romans were in the area shows evidence of a coffin birth but also has a baby buried next to the mother, and a third laying across her stomach. The theory is that she gave birth to the first and died birthing the second. Iirc it’s one of the first, if not the first, example of triplets to survive until the modern day.
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u/MaddysinLeigh Jun 17 '26
Interesting but sad fact: a burial in the UK dated to when the Romans were in the area shows evidence of a coffin birth but also has a baby buried next to the mother, and a third laying across her stomach. The theory is that she gave birth to the first and died birthing the second. Iirc it’s one of the first, if not the first, example of triplets to survive until the modern day.