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>Analyzing Tophets: Did the Phoenicians Practice Child Sacrifice?>Katelyn DiBenedettoRather, it appears that child sacrifice was performed as a Phoenician response to a major crisis, such as military or natural disasters (Brown 1991: 33). This is supported by Philo of Byblos who wrote a Phoenician history around 100 AD, of which only fragments survive today. Philo asserts that he translated into Greek, in eight volumes, a history of the Phoenicians by the Phoenician author Sanchuniathon, who is thought to have lived in Beirut or Tyre at the end of the
second millennium BC (Aubet 2001: 28; Brown 1991: 22). Sanchuniathon was considered an
authority on Phoenician religion and history, and he recorded that at the time of the Trojan war a Phoenician custom was for the ‘princes of the city’ to sacrifice the most cherished of their children in mysterious ceremonies in honor of Cronos (Ba’al Hammon) in times of grave danger, plagues, wars, or natural disasters (Aubet 2001: 246; Brown 1991: 22). This reference is important because it suggests that child sacrifice was an elite practice, thereby providing a possible antecedent for the Iron Age ritual of mulk. It also illustrates that the sacrifice of a child was a powerful supplication for help to the gods (Bonnet 2010: 384).
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=honorscollege_anthroi bet that lady was well pissed off it turned out that
>actually yes, they did sacrifice children 
