Did the Carthaginians sacrifice their children? A study of remains from the tophet (burial ground) at Carthage suggests most of the children died prenatally or soon after birth and were unlikely to have lived long enough to be sacrificed.

Three cheers for volunteer Shelley Rasmussen, who drives 50 miles each way each Tuesday to lead tours at ASU’s Deer Valley Rock Art Center. Her  pay? Nothing—it’s a labor of love.

Homeless people in Bristol, UK, have taken part in a small-scale archaeological dig in the heart of the city, with the help of students from the University of Bristol, English Heritage, and the police. See our story “Archaeology of the Homeless” for archaeologists studying the material culture of the homeless in the Midwest.

Here’s a story about the work of the Rim Country Chapter of the Arizona Archaeology Society, which traces its roots to an “Introduction to Archaeology” class at Gila Pueblo Community College in Payson during the 1980s.

Home renovation in the Old City turned up a fragment of an 1,100-year-old plaque from when Jerusalem was ruled from Baghdad by the Abbasid empire. It is thought to have been made by an army veteran to express his thanks for a land grant from the Caliph al-Muqtadir, the “Emir of the Faithful.”

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