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Month: July 2014

Oldest case of Down’s syndrome from medieval France

Posted on July 11, 2014April 11, 2015

The oldest confirmed case of Down’s syndrome has been found: the skeleton of a child who died 1500 years ago in early medieval France. According to the archaeologists, the way the child was buried hints that Down’s syndrome was not necessarily stigmatised in the Middle Ages. New Scientist. July 2014.

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