The Baby's Grave in a Medieval Brothel: A Radical Act Of Love

Send us Fan Mail There's a moment in every archaeological dig when time collapses. When the careful scraping of trowels reveals something so intimate, so human, that centuries disappear and you're suddenly face-to-face with a life that mattered to someone, somewhere, sometime. In 1998, that moment came in a medieval square in Aalst, Belgium, where archaeologists found something that should make us all deeply uncomfortable about the stories we tell ourselves about the past—and about marginaliz...