The Dark Story Of Ancient Carthage's Child Sacrifices | Blood On The Altar | Timeline
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Phoenicians were an advanced civilization known for maritime trade and possibly practicing child sacrifice, with recent archaeological finds supporting this theory through forensic DNA analysis. Scholars debate the existence of ritual sacrifice, with ongoing research aiming to determine the health, age, and sex of the sacrificed children through teeth analysis and DNA testing.
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Scholars debate the existence of child sacrifice among the Phoenicians, with some dismissing it as a smear campaign, while recent archaeological discoveries, such as the 6,000 funeral urns with charred remains of children, prompt forensic analysis and DNA testing to potentially confirm this practice.
Dr. Charlotte Roberts, a biological anthropologist, aims to determine if the children's remains found in the urns indicate natural deaths or sacrificial rites, with analysis of teeth revealing the children were healthy at the time of death, supporting the theory of ritual child sacrifice in Machia.
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Were Phoenicians advanced compared to other civilizations?
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