In 1960, construction contractors made a terrifying discovery. They witnessed a terrible sight. We are talking about “attic babies” who were thrown onto the roofs of Athens because they were born with genetic defects or were simply “unwanted”.
At a time when babies were born with birth defects, children out of wedlock or simply unwanted, women simply … threw them into the attics that existed in old houses. As soon as contractors began large-scale demolition of apartment buildings, they had to deal with the gruesome sight of mummified babies more than once.
The reason why the corpses of newborns remained intact is simple. In the attics, apparently, there were conditions favorable to the fact that the body did not decompose, but, as it were, “mummified”.
It should be noted that, in addition to anomalies, disability or the birth of children prematurely, young girls who came from the islands and were hired to work as servants in rich houses often left their babies in attics. Underage innocent and unintelligent girls were seduced (or raped) by men in the house where they worked or by rogues, street vendors.
At that time in Athens it was a big problem to have an abortion. In order not to be stigmatized as “single mothers with offspring”, women in labor were forced to leave their child … in the attic.
In 1970, a body washed up on the shore of the island of Karpathos petrified newborn. He weighed 650 grams and was only 51 centimeters tall. After checking in special laboratories of that time, it was concluded that the child most likely died shortly after birth.
The answer to the reasonable question “why didn’t carnivorous fish gnaw it?” like this: the body was thrown into very deep waters. The circumstances that caused the child to drown and not float to the surface of the sea are still mysterious.
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