Canaanite Altar (human sacrifices)

Mario Paulo Monteiro, on March 4, 2009, said:

Ainda não há prova alguma de que o local fosse para sacrifícios, quanto mais humanos! é um ato típico de falta de informação e excesso de imaginação. No History Chanel de 3.fev.09, o arqueólogo "sugere" que fossem cometidos sacrifícios de animais de médio porte (cabras etc) O local poderia ser simplesmente uma praça privilegiada para "ver a banda passar".

linearconcepts, on April 20, 2009, said:

Hi, Mario. Thanks for the comments. I used babelfish to translate from Portugese to English, so forgive me if I misunderstood your paragraph.

I was told by our tour guide (who is a retired archaeologist professor) that human bones were found on this Canaanite altar at Megiddo. If I understand your comment correctly, you quoted an expert on the History Channel who said that this was not true - that goat bones were found here. That may be fine and well, but I've seen far too many errors on History Channel, Nova, National Geographic, etc to place complete faith in the experts quoted there. For example, just yesterday, I saw an 'expert' on the History channel say that the great pyramids were built by Thutmose III (and showed a video of Kaphre's pyramid). Sorry, but Thutmose III lived c 1475BC and the pyramids of the Giza complex were built c 2600BC. I don't know what was worse: that this 'expert' was off by 1,000 years or that the editors at the History Channel didn't catch it.

It may be true that no human skeletons were found on this particular altar, but history shows that the ancient Cananites did indeed sacrifice their own offspring to Molech, etc.