Stock Photo - 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,

Stock Photo: Tombstone from the Children's cemetery, Carthage, Tunisia, 3rd century BC. The city-state of Carthage was a Phoenician colony.