A major problem in the ancient world was spontaneous miscarriage, which might have reached as high as twenty percent of pregnancies, according to an Egyptologist, and there’s no reason to think that the figures for Israel or Mesopotamia are significantly different. Remedies or aids for this included the use of tampons, medicine, or amulets. The former could consist of ground animal bones prepared and inserted, while a medical inscription reads, “If a woman is about to lose her fetus in either the