[decimon]

Kindertoten ping.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Other than 100 or so years of war and invasion, I can’t imagine why the Roman’s would talk smack about Carthage...

[Woebama]

That is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read. Carthaginian inscriptions, ancient chroniclers, the Old Testament and this scientist’s results all show infant sacrifice by the Carthaginians. But the “scientist” then says: “Our results show that some children were sacrificed, but they contradict the conclusion that Carthaginians were a brutal bunch who regularly sacrificed their own children.” Ridiculous. It’s like he wanted to disprove infant sacrifice and couldn’t so he just spun it that way.

[Antoninus]

"Our study emphasizes that historical scientists must consider all evidence when deciphering ancient societal behavior," Schwartz said. "The idea of regular infant sacrifice in Carthage is not based on a study of the cremated remains, but on instances of human sacrifice reported by a few ancient chroniclers, inferred from ambiguous Carthaginian inscriptions, and referenced in the Old Testament."

And lord knows, a modern archaeologist studying bones thousands of years old, is a much more reliable witness than a near-contemporary historian. (Insert eye-roll here).

"Our results show that some children were sacrificed, but they contradict the conclusion that Carthaginians were a brutal bunch who regularly sacrificed their own children."

LOL. Was this posted on Scrappleface?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Please note that this is University of Pittsburgh research, so still has scientific credibility, unlike Pennsylvania State University, that can no longer be considered a credible research facility as long as Michael Mann, creator of the “horse hockey graph” of global climate change remains in their employ.

[Leisler]

[Slings and Arrows]

Pitt-led study debunks millennia-old claims of systematic infant sacrifice in ancient Carthage

Spoilsports.

[TASMANIANRED]

Discovering that they were perninatal does not determine the cause of death.

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks decimon. :') And King Tut was black. And there was no slavery in ancient Egypt. And the Aryans have always lived in India. And the British are indigenous to Britain (or as one wag put it, are descended from "symbolically transformed reindeer"). Carthage had a spectacularly engineered artificial port, set up to accommodate both military and commercial needs -- and yet hardly anything survived from that, or from the mighty walls of Carthage. There's been a weird undercurrent lasting a few generations, to construct a smiley-face mask over the reality of Carthage, and of course this is part of the campaign to smear ancient Rome. The Phoenicians impress me because of their successful maritime commerce and various navies (since they remained independent city-states to the end), which took them all the way around Africa, led them to explore, colonize, and trade with western Africa as far south as modern Cameroon. Their consumption of the flesh of their own young doesn't impress me all that much -- except in a negative way. Thanks for that link in FReepmail, I've yet to get to it, but hope to in a few minutes. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[ApplegateRanch]

Our results show that some children were sacrificed, but they contradict the conclusion that Carthaginians were a brutal bunch who regularly sacrificed their own children."

We already know what you are M'am; now we're just negotiating the price.