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Wednesday, September 9. 2009

My summer vacation: Carthage

Most of Roman Carthage (which was the third largest Roman metropolis in the 200-400 era, after Rome and Alexandria - the population was around 300,000) is buried beneath the modern town of Carthage, but some that is accessible has been excavated.


After the Third Punic War in 146 BC, very little remained of the old Phoenician Carthage - except things like these boxes. The Phoenicians worshipped Baal, who required that everybody's first-born be sacrificed. The ashes of these kids were buried in these sad little stone boxes.



More of my photos of cool Roman Carthage ruins below -


The luxurious baths covered over five acres:



 


The polished pink granite columns of the baths were imported from France:



An aqueduct carried water 150 km from the Atlas mountains down to Carthage, where it was stored in this giant modern-looking system of concrete cisterns (with manholes for cleaning them out):



 The amphitheater - actually an arena - in Carthage. There were 600 Roman amphitheaters in North Africa.



 

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From scholar Richard Rubenstein's The Religion of Sacrifice and Abraham, Isaac and Jesus: Judaism never entirely rejected the idea that God demands the sacrifice of the first-born son. However we evaluate the existence of child sacrifice in anc
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I believe that inhabitants of Carthage and Tyre worshipped Molech, at whose altars infants were sacrificed. The Old Testament prophets repeatedly rebuke the Israelites for straying into Molech worship, as well.
#1 Tom Brewton (Link) on 2009-09-11 00:56 (Reply)

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