Herod's Massacre of the Innocents

According to the infancy gospel according to Matthew, King Herod had all the male children under the age of 3 in Bethlehem killed after believing that the Messiah was born and realizing he had been deceived by the three magi (wise men). However, no historian—not even Josephus, who gladly shared all Herod's transgressions and misdeeds—has documented this event. Even the killing of John the Baptist is mentioned, but not the murder of an entire area's male babies and toddlers.