House Of Horrors.

Scholars were baffled when in Ashkelon, on the Southern coast of Israel, archaeologists discovered a sinister sight in the sewers under a Roman bathhouse. Someone had disposed of human beings down there, specifically human babies. 

All of the infants were the same age and with no signs of disease or skeletal malformation, suggested infanticide rather than a catastrophe such as epidemic.

All the infants are thought to probably be girls because female infanticide was widespread in Roman society. 

In a letter written in 1 B.C a husband instructs his pregnant wife, "if it is a boy keep it, if a girl discard it."