Child Burials - Carthage, Tunisia

The Tophet, a cemetery outside Carthage's main burial ground (Flickr)

A team led by University of Pittsburgh physical anthropologist Jeffrey Schwartz has refuted the long-held claim that the Carthaginians carried out large-scale child sacrifice from the eighth to second centuries B.C. The researchers announced their results this year after spending decades examining the cremated remains of 540 children from 348 burial urns excavated in the Tophet, a cemetery outside Carthage's main burial gro

Jarrett A. Lobell is editor in chief at ARCHAEOLOGY.