 René Dussaud identified a 4th-century BC stela found in Carthage as depicting a child sacrifice.A temple at Amman (1400–1250 BC) excavated and reported upon by J.B. Hennessy in 1966, shows the possibility of bestial and human sacrifice by fire.While evidence of child sacrifice in Canaan was the object of academic disagreement, with some scholars arguing that merely children's cemeteries had been unearthed in Carthage, the mixture of children's with animal bones as well as associated epigraphic evidence involving mention of "mlk" led some to believe that, at least in Carthage, child sacrifice was indeed common practice.