National Geographic - Lost Faces of the Bible (2012) Part 4 Sacrificial Child

Lost Faces of the Bible- in this limited four-part documentary series, an international team of forensic anthropologists and artists painstakingly work on four ancient, Biblical era skulls using a combination of traditional and state-of-the-art procedures in forensic facial reconstruction to dramatically bring to life some of the most famous (and infamous) faces of the Bible. Though myth-busting archaeology, dramatic recreations, and cutting-edge forensic investigation, National Geographic attempts to accurately reconstruct the faces that may have walked beside the legends of the bible. With unprecendented access to four ancient skulls from the Holy Land, Lost Faces of the Bible seeks to rebuild not only a face, but the life and times of a bygone era. Travelling across the globe, archaelogists and scholars separate fact from myth, while a team of forensic anthropologists and artists put flesh on bone, using traditional and state-of- the-art methods of facial reconstruction.

Part 4 Sacrificial Child

The discovery of a tiny infant in a clay jar leads the team to explore humanity's history of sacrifice, and reveal the face and the short life of a 6,000-year old child. During the excavation of an ancient village in Israel, archaeologists made a gruesome discovery in a clay jar they discovered the skeleton of a child. The body must have been carefully buried under the foundations of a house around six thousand years ago. Why did this happen? And who could have been capable of such an act? Did a mother simply want to be close to her child who died too young? But it is also possible that it was a human sacrifice to appease the gods. The topic of human sacrifice do play a role in the Bible. So also did Abraham.

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