I was just watching Egypt's Buried City. The show remarks that a child had arthritis in their feet, how unusual this was and their conclusion was that the child's arthritis was caused by having to work hard to build the city.
Except from what my research shows Juvenile Arthritis exists, is the most common chronic condition in children, commonly affects the feet, is not necessarily caused by heavy labour and any damage caused by it is still long term or permanent.
And as this child was the only one specifically pointed to as having arthritic joints it would seem to be just an interesting coincidence rather than anything conclusive about child labour.
The other evidence about the bones, which would have been far more conclusive, seemed tacked onto the end of that section of the documentary to reinforce their conclusion when it should have been the primary evidence.
In the end it seemed that the authors used the audiences preconceived beliefs that arthritis is an old persons disease to either gain audience interest or push their own conclusions. Either way it was deceptive at best.
I would not recommend watching without a healthy level of critical thought and scepticism.
