Blood on the Altar: Dark Rituals of the Phoenicians

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History Documentary hosted by Piers Gibbon, published by Channel 4 in 2000 - English narration

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Did ancient Phoenicians, a powerful Mediterranean nation of seafaring traders also known as the Canaanites in the Bible, really sacrifice their children in rituals involving human sacrifice, or was this claim just a fabrication? Blood on the altar takes a look a the archaeological and historical evidence on whether the Phoenicians killed children to appease their gods. The Phoenicians are said to have invented the alphabet, sea-faring navigation and the introduction of wine to Europe. But after the sacking of Carthage by the Romans in 146BC and the destruction of their famous library, the world was left with very little evidence of Phoenician life and culture. To the Greeks and Romans, the Phoenicians were described as a people of unscrupulous profiteers, grubby merchants – and worse. They were seen as a morally corrupt race who forcibly prostituted their daughters in sacred rituals and killed their own young in an attempt to win over their violent gods. But digging through history, there seems to be more to the story. Were the Phoenicians truly evil or victims of a vicious propaganda campaign? Directed by Jill Marshall ; Produced by Twenty Twenty Television for Channel 4

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Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4
Video Bitrate: 3 392 Kbps
Video Resolution: 1920x1080
Display Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames Per Second: 25.000 fps
Audio Codec: AAC (LC)
Audio Bitrate: 112 kb/s VBR 44.1 kHz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 49 min 53 s
Number Of Parts: 1
Part Size: 1.22 GB
Source: WEB DL
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