When the carthaginians and the Scythian's controlled the oceans they wrote the maps. Created the rumors of a flat earth, falling off the edge and Krakens.
Aristotle and the ancient Greeks taught that the earth revolved around the sun and the earth was round
https://archive.org/details/earlygreekastron0000dick/page/68/mode/2up?view=theater
They didn't allow anyone to sail east of the pillars of Hercules. It's interesting no one has looked to find the pillars. If they where not permitted to sail past them I believe they where enslaved forced to stay.
As you can see their hiding dates way back before the fall of Carthage.
Not unlike the meaning behind the Argonath from the LoTR.
