Maybe this guy set out to prove the Bible wrong, but picked the wrong city. Or maybe the reporter doesn’t have his facts straight. I can’t believe a reporter could be wrong, though.
I do not see why you are looking in the Bible to find out about Carthage. What does the Bible have to do with it? Rome completely destroyed the city in 146 BC. The period of the Punic Wars (264 BC-146 BC) is not covered in the Old Testament and predates the New Testament. According to the maps I have seen of Paul's missionary journeys, he did not go to the site of ancient Carthage. In Paul's time, no one would have referred to a country or a place called Carthage. It no longer existed.
Carthage was a colony of the Phonecian cities Sidon and Tyre, also called the Caananites in Scripture. The Caananites had a god called Moloch to who children were sacrificed. This practiced also migrated into Israel and Judah where it is routinely condemned in Scripture.
Perhaps because the researcher referenced it, and MichiganConservative thought he may have missed something?
I know that when somebody tells me something is in the Bible that I suspect is bogus, I either ask them to show me; or try to look it up for myself. They're usually wrong, spinning, or both.
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.