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Title: Archeologist challenges ideas about ritual killings.
Description: Archeologist Lawrence Stager (left) of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, pauses a moment with one of his graduate student co-workers on their most recent excavation this past summer of the burial ground of the ancient city of Carthage in what is now Tunisia. The urn near Stager's hand is typical of the burial urns that contain the incinerated remains of the children sacrificed to the gods by the Carthaginians.
Date Created: 1979
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., University of Chicago. Oriental Institute., Stager, Lawrence E.
Topical Subject(s): Child sacrifice--Carthage (Extinct city), Archaeology--Carthage (Extinct city)
Geographic subjects: Carthage (Extinct city), Carthage (Extinct city), Chicago (Ill.), Carthage (Extinct city), Qarṭājannah (Tunisia), North and Central America--United States--Cook--Illinois--Chicago, Africa--Tunisia--Tunis--Carthage
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1054, Box 52A, image no. PC-53593; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_PC-53593
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:148580

Title: Archeologist challenges ideas about ritual killing of young.
Description: Article written for the Religious News Service.
Date Created: 1980, May 1, 1980, May 1, 1980
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., University of Chicago. Oriental Institute., Stager, Lawrence E.
Topical Subject(s): Child sacrifice--Carthage (Extinct city), Archaeology--Carthage (Extinct city)
Geographic subjects: Carthage (Extinct city), Carthage (Extinct city), Chicago (Ill.), Carthage (Extinct city), Qarṭājannah (Tunisia), North and Central America--United States--Cook--Illinois--Chicago, Africa--Tunisia--Tunis--Carthage
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1054, Box 52A, image no. PC-53593; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_PC-53593_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:149197

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