Carthage Tophets

Times of crisis in the Phoenician city of Carthage brought great loss to elite parents. Carthaginians would sacrifice their own children to please their gods, Baal and Tanit. Usually the children would be young males. Once burned, their bones and ashes were placed in urns, which were buried in walled enclosures called tophets. Sadly, the popularity of this sacrifice only grew with time.

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