Child Sacrifice.As you say tv programes are more intrested in ratings and accuracy, but the program in question was a sience program focusing on forensic pathology. Proberly not overly concerned with ratings.
The point of the program was how new methods were able to identify the age, sex, etc of bone fragements from a selection of phoni sites (not just the normal graves but the urns we are most concerned with). The body of sientific evidence was such that the following amongst other intresting findings, resulting in the following changes to standard reference works.
Not trying to change your view, just making sure your aware of all the arguments.
http://almashriq.hiof.no/ddc/projects/archaeology/berytus-back/berytus39/seeden-tophet/
The above is a part of a report on forensic reports as to the nature and type of bones recovered
in a dig at tyre.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=119959&tocid=46468#46468.toc
The Carthaginians were notorious in antiquity for the intensity of their religious beliefs, which they retained to the end of their independence and which in turn influenced the religion of the Libyans. The chief deity was Baal Hammon, the community's divine lord and protector, who was identified by the Greeks with Cronus and by the Romans with Saturn. During the 5th century a goddess named Tanit came to be widely worshiped and represented in art. It is possible that her name is Libyan and that her popularity was connected with the acquisition of land in the interior, as she is associated with symbols of fertility. These two overshadow other deities such as Melqart, principal deity of Tyre, identified with Heracles, and Eshmoun, identified with Asclepius. Human sacrifice was the element in Carthaginian religion most criticized; it persisted in Africa much longer than in Phoenicia, probably into the 3rd century. The child victims were sacrificed to Baal (not to Moloch, an interpretation based on a misunderstanding of the texts) and the burned bones buried in urns under stone markers, or stelae. At Carthage thousands of such urns have been found in the “Sanctuary of Tanit,” and similar burials have been discovered at Hadrumetum, Cirta, Motya, Calaris, Nora, and Sulcis. (For illustration, see Middle Eastern religion.) Carthaginian religion appears to have taught the weakness of human beings in the face of the overwhelming and capricious power of the gods. The great majority of Carthaginian personal names, unlike those of Greece and Rome, were of religious significance—e.g., Hannibal, “Favoured by Baal,” or Hamilcar, “Favoured by Melqart.”
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Tanit
also spelled TINITH, TINNIT, OR TINT, chief goddess of Carthage, equivalent of Astarte. Although she seems to have had some connection with the heavens, she was also a mother goddess, and fertility symbols often accompany representations of her. She was probably the consort of Baal Hammon (or Amon), the chief god of Carthage, and was often given the attribute "face of Baal." Although Tanit did not appear at Carthage before the 5th century BC, she soon eclipsed the more established cult of Baal Hammon and, in the Carthaginian area at least, was frequently listed before him on the monuments. In the worship of Tanit and Baal Hammon, children, probably firstborn, were sacrificed. Ample evidence of the practice has been found west of Carthage in the precinct of Tanit, where a tofet (a sanctuary for the sacrifice of children) was discovered. Tanit was also worshiped on Malta, Sardinia, and in Spain.
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Hannibal
