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To: blam
"We didn't do it," says the 69-year-old archaeologist, rejecting accusations that the ancient citizens of this North African land sacrificed babies to appease their gods.

"We"? You and they aren't even the same people. The Romans wiped out the Carthaginians, and the Arabs moved in some centuries later. It'd be like Americans referring to pre-Columbian Indian practices with the word "we".

3 posted on 05/27/2005 12:28:58 PM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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To: inquest
Modern Tunisians are an ethnic mix of ancient Pheonicians (themselves a Semitic people), Greek and Roman settlers, Berbers and Arabs.

Arab ancestry, of course, predominates.

8 posted on 05/27/2005 12:31:58 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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