Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Archaeological Site of Carthage' has mentioned 'Sacrifice' in the following places:
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Excavations performed by French archaeologists in the 1920s first attracted an extraordinary amount of attention because of the evidence they produced for child sacrifice. | WIKI |
There has been considerable disagreement among scholars concerning whether child sacrifice was practiced by ancient Carthage. | WIKI |
The presence of infant skeletons from here may indicate the occurrence of child sacrifice, as claimed in the Bible, although there has been considerable doubt among archeologists as to this interpretation and many consider it simply a cemetery devoted to infants. | WIKI |
"[34][35] Recent studies, on the other hand, indicate that child sacrifice was practiced by the Carthaginians. | WIKI |
Renxc3xa9 Dussaud identified a 4th-century BC stela found in Carthage as depicting a child sacrifice. | WIKI |
While evidence of child sacrifice in Canaan was the object of academic disagreement, with some scholars arguing that merely children's cemeteries had been unearthed in Carthage, the mixture of children's with animal bones as well as associated epigraphic evidence involving mention of mlk led some to believe that, at least in Carthage, child sacrifice was indeed common practice. | WIKI |
Rather, the animal sacrifice was likely done to, in some way, honour the deceased. | WIKI |