EditorialDemonstrators rally in Tunis, Tunisia, in January 2011, during the Arab Spring uprising, to demand the resignation of the dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. (Holly Pickett/The New York Times)
EditorialPunic stelae from the tophet at Carthage. This was a cemetery for cinerary urns of children and small animals. The immolation of young children by Punic priests was a religious rite to ward off exceptional disasters. 3rd-2nd BCE.
EditorialPunic stelae from the tophet at Carthage. This was a cemetery for cinerary urns of children and small animals. The immolation of young children by Punic priests was a religious rite to ward off exceptional disasters. 3rd-2nd BCE.