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.
Carthage is not mentioned in the Bible.
I doubt that ‘infant sacrifice’ was uncommon anywhere back then. Probably not at any time.
Our chroniclers will say something like: only 1 in 5 children were sacrificed on the altar of selfishness while still in the womb. This means that America of the late 20th and early 21st century was not at all uncaring about their unborn children.
Because they hideously murdered fewer children than was thought, the researchers have concluded that the Cathagenians weren’t brutal. That makes sense in liberal academia.
On the other hand, I guess we might not think the Cathaginians not so terribly brutal if we compare their infant sacrifices to the tens of millions of babies we have sacrificed to the religions of feminism, liberalism, and zero population growth.
The Carthaginians were the Israelis of their day, a small but superbly successful and wealth country, they were envied as far away as Rome, a rival for dominance of the Mediterranean. Carthage reminds me of Rome, they became complacent and their envious neighbors destroyed their civilization and their empire. Or like modern America.