Carthage Tries To Live Down Image As Site Of Infanticide

Post-Gazette/Wall Street Journal ^ | 5-26-2004 | Andrew Higgins

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Carthage tries to live down image as site of infanticide

Thursday, May 26, 2005

By Andrew Higgins, The Wall Street Journal

CARTHAGE, Tunisia -- Mhamed Hassine Fantar has a bone to pick with the Roman Empire, French writer Gustave Flaubert and a group of Americans who specialize in digging up old graves.

An expert on ancient Carthage -- a city obliterated by the Romans more than 2,000 years ago -- Mr. Fantar is campaigning to clear his forefathers of a nasty stigma: a reputation for infanticide.

"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.

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