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by toadworrier 2918 days ago
Yes. The Romans they accepted as inevitable that vast numbers of infants would be killed all the time. The Carthagians would have also had to deal with this reality. Perhaps they did so by framing it as a sacrifice to Moloch -- a practice which the Romans found nearly as abhorrent as we do.

But then, given that the killings were happening anyway, the existence of an infant necropolis does not prove that sacrificing was going on.