Tombstone from the Children's cemetery, Carthage

Tombstone from the Children's cemetery, Carthage, Tunisia, 3rd century BC. The city-state of Carthage was a Phoenician colony. It operated from around 800BC until 146BC, when it was destroyed by the Romans. Children, both male and female, and mostly a few weeks old, were sacrificed by the Carthaginians at locations known as tophets

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