ABSTRACT
The study of infants and children in antiquity has traditionally been approached through textual, iconographic, or other documentary or archaeological sources for information about their lives and experiences in the past. Another route of enquiry is through the analyses of children’s burials and bodies to shed light on their mortuary treatment, and also to examine their lives and ultimately their deaths through the interpretation of their skeletal and dental remains. This chapter provides an overview of the bioarchaeological research being conducted on the fetuses, infants, and children excavated from the Kellis 2 cemetery (c. 100–400 AD), Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt.
