The Phoenicians sound very familiar:
If they would receive the desired things, they would sacrifice it to the god. A bronze Kronos, having been erected by them, stretched out upturned hands over a bronze oven to burn the child. The flame of the burning child reached its body until, the limbs having shriveled up and the smiling mouth appearing to be almost laughing, it would slip into the oven. Therefore the grin is called “sardonic laughter,” since they die laughing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sacrifice#Phoenicia_and_Carthage
Most scholars agree that the ritual performed at the tophet was child sacrifice, and they connect it to similar episodes throughout the Bible and recorded for the ancient Phoenicians (referred to as Canaanites in the Bible) and Carthaginians by Greco-Roman sources. There is disagreement about whether the sacrifices were offered to a god named "Moloch". Based on Phoenician and Carthaginian inscriptions, a growing number of scholars believe that the word moloch refers to the type of sacrifice rather than a deity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tophet