[blam]

"I suspect that a great deal more than we realize was lost with the sack of Carthage. What bits and pieces were left were probably buried even earlier in the conquest of Sicily and Sardinia."

...and the library at Alexandria. I read somewhere (only seen it once and can't find again) that said that, Plutarch, on a tour of the ruins of Carthage, claims to have seen charts/graphs(?) that recorded trade with nations across the Atlantic.

[LostTribe]

>...and the library at Alexandria.

One of the tragedies of history was the sacking of the library. Imagine what what was lost.

[John Locke]

This red herring goes back to a Frenchman, James Amiot. He published a French translation of Plutarch's Lives, which is of interest because it was one of Shakespeare's sources.

He also claimed to have discovered some lost manuscripts of Plutarch, one of which tells the story of the mysterious travel notes found at Carthage. Frankly, I don't believe it.