There is, BTW, little or no archaeological evidence for this practice in Phoenicia or Israel.
The practice has been documented among the Canaanites, including the Phoenicians, not only from the records of contemporaries, but from the digs (clearly it’s been more difficult to excavate Phoenician sites in Lebanon than it has to excavate many others, because hardly any of the ancient Phoenician sites have ever been abandoned and remain occupied). It’s interesting that the purported debunking began with the usual cast of characters, who during the 19th and 20th centuries made unsubstantiated claims that this or that from ancient sources (including pretty much the entire the Old Testament, and even the clear descriptions of the Oracle of Delphi) had no basis in fact. One joker even went so far as to claim that not only was there no evidence for the erstwhile existence of Abraham, but that his existence had been disproved for all time.