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<< Our Photo Pages >> Carthage Tophet - Ancient Temple in Tunisia

Submitted by AlexHunger on Sunday, 30 March 2008  Page Views: 8382

Roman, Greek and ClassicalSite Name: Carthage Tophet Alternative Name: Qart Hadasht Tophet, Carthage Salammbo
Country: Tunisia
NOTE: This site is 3.051 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Tunis  Nearest Village: Carthage
Latitude: 36.842640N  Longitude: 10.324020E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 2 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Carthage Tophet
Carthage Tophet submitted by AlexHunger : Probably one of the creepiest places on earth. The Tophet was the Punic temple and graveyard area. There was a temple of tanit and a temple of Ball. Carthaginian priest carried babies to the "Moloch," a hollow copper efigy of Baal with a bull head, movable arms and an interior furnace which was installed to receive the child sacrifices. Some of this was thought to have been Roman propagan... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Temple in Tunisia

The ancient Punic city of carthage is spread out over a half dozen sites among luxury villas in a wealthy subburb of modern Tunis.

This area with he remains of temples to Baal Amon and Tanit as well as hundreds of children's graves and a cave is one of the most gruesome places in the world on account of strange atmosphere from the human sacrifices held here.

Tanit was more of a housewife/mother/moon goddes, while Baal Amon was a semitic sun god. A Moloch, or bronze bull shaped or headed statue was set up for him here, with a built in furnace where children, mosly first born, where sacrificed in times of trouble.

The Bardo Museum has a stelle showing a Punic priest carrying a baby to its doom.

Under Roman rule, Baal Amon and Tanit were rehabiliated or sanitized as Saturn and Juno Caelestis.
Qart Hadasht was the Punic name before the Romans latinized it.
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Carthage Tophet
Carthage Tophet submitted by AlexHunger : Probably one of the creepiest places on earth. The Tophet was the Punic temple and graveyard area. This extremely detailed pointy stelle is in the Bardo museum behind a plexiglass pane. Here, a Carthaginian priest carries a baby to the "Moloch," a hollow copper efigy of Baal with a bull head, movable arms and an interior furnace which was installed to receive the child sacrifices. Some of this... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Carthage Tophet
Carthage Tophet submitted by AlexHunger : Probably one of the creepiest places on earth. The Tophet was the Punic temple and graveyard area. Remains of Temple of Baal. Here, the "Moloch" a hollow copper efigy of Baal with a Bull head, movable arms and an interior furnace which was installed to receive the child sacrifices. Some of this may have been Roman propaganda, but there is enough archeological evidence. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Carthage Tophet
Carthage Tophet submitted by AlexHunger : The Tophet was the Punic temple and graveyard area. Remains of Temple of Tanit. Tanit was later rehabilitated as the Roman Goddess Juno Caelestis. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Carthage Tophet
Carthage Tophet submitted by AlexHunger : The Tophet was the Punic temple and graveyard area. Remains of Temple of Tanit under "Jungle." (Vote or comment on this photo)

Carthage Tophet
Carthage Tophet submitted by AlexHunger : The Tophet was the Punic temple and graveyard area. Stele using the symbol of the Goddess Tanit for a Child victim in the Bardo Museum.

Carthage Tophet
Carthage Tophet submitted by AlexHunger : The Tophet was the Punic temple and graveyard area. Punic walls separating the sacred area and now holding back the modern street level which is nearly 3 meters higher.

Carthage Tophet
Carthage Tophet submitted by AlexHunger : The Tophet was the Punic temple and graveyard area. Here the man made cave with further tombstones for children.

Carthage Tophet
Carthage Tophet submitted by AlexHunger : The Tophet was the Punic temple and graveyard area. Here the cave with further tombstones for children. Possibly for child sacrifice.

Carthage Tophet
Carthage Tophet submitted by AlexHunger : The Tophet was the Punic temple and graveyard area. Here a pointy tombstone for children collected at the central location. Possibly for child sacrifice.

Carthage Tophet
Carthage Tophet submitted by AlexHunger : The Tophet was the Punic temple and graveyard area. Here are tombstones for children collected at the central location. Some where sacrificed.

Carthage Tophet
Carthage Tophet submitted by AlexHunger : The Tophet was the Punic temple and graveyard area. Here are tombstones for children collected at the central location. Some where sacrificed.

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