Carthage- What Really Happened? Carthage, inventers of the alphabet, leading navigators, a civilization that thrived on its trade and once rivaling Rome in advancement, now steeped in mystery. The Pheonicians were completely destroyed by their archenemies the Romans in the Third Punic in 146BC and with all written traces of Carthage obliterated, there is no trace of their own account of their lifestyle before the Romans. The only source left of Carthaginian history is from …
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…sacrifices, it is hypothesized that the parents wore these grinning masks to hide their sadness at the loss of their child from the gods. In conclusion the evidence on the matter of whether there really was child sacrifices at Carthage can be explained both ways and there is no definite explanation. Perhaps in the future when technology improves and there are precise results that cannot be debated, the truth about Carthage will be finally revealed.