📍The Massacre (or Slaughter) of the Innocents is recounted in the Nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew (2:16–18) in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children who are two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem in am attempt to Kill Jesus. Mass tombs of the innocents and their mothers were found in and around the vicinity of Bethlehem using biblical archaeology. The bones date back to the late 1BC- early 1AD many of those bones housed and the