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 […]

Well, let’s get the Tut news out of the way first… The LA Times covers the basic information thoroughly, if not terribly critically (not many people are doing that, by the way). So, he died of broken leg and malaria; we have some relatives identified with DNA. In the Times Online, Tutankhamun is said to […]