It would seem that some experts agree with me, give or take a little....a quick look at Wikipedia....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sacrifice#cite_note-plosone.org-13
“The accuracy of such stories is disputed by some modern historians and archaeologists. At Carthage, a large cemetery exists that combines the bodies of both very young children and small animals, and those who argue in favor of child sacrifice have argued that if the animals were sacrificed then so too were the children. However, recent archaeological work has produced a detailed breakdown of the age of the buried children and based on this, and especially on the presence of pre natal individuals - that is still births, it is also argued that this site is consistent with the burial of children who had died from natural causes in a society that had a high infant mortality rate - as Carthage is assumed to have been. I.e. this data supports the view that Tophets were cemeteries for those who died shortly before or after birth, regardless of the cause.”
From the article...”Skeletal Remains from Punic Carthage Do Not Support Systematic Sacrifice of Infants”
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0009177
Wikipedia also states..
“Phoenician sacrifice has been debunked as nothing more than a myth....”
....which refers to the article (synopsis, really) “Still Born Fetuses in Urns & the Perpetuated Lie of Diodoro Siculo” which states...
“....the greater part of approximately 6,000 children urns found in Carthage, contain bones of fetuses, therefore of still born babies.”
http://phoenicia.org/childsacrifice.html
I am not an archaeologist, but one thing that I definitely believe about the subject is that there is a very great deal that they are not really sure of....
This is an issue of political correctness, IMO.
There are those that do not want to believe that mankind is capable of this or any other such brutality, despite the evidence that it occurs even today, both on an individual and a cultural level. For example, Detroit.
Wikipedia is useful for some things, but it is hardly authoritative.
I’ll take the Biblical narartive over Wikipedia, any day. But, hey, I could be wrong. I just don’t think so.
Yeah, the Phoenicians didn’t practice child sacrifice (even though THEY documented that they did), and there was no slavery in ancient Egypt (even though that’s modern propaganda), and there was never an Aryan invasion of India, even though the Aryans themselves documented it.