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Pytheas’ original account of his voyages from his hometown of Massalia (today’s Marseille) in southern France, to Britain and beyond, although well known to ancient scholars, is completely lost — most likely during the fires that destroyed the Library of Alexandria in Egypt [
greekreporter.com] .
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Despite the widespread modern belief that the Library of Alexandria was burned once and cataclysmically destroyed, the Library actually declined gradually over the course of several centuries [
en.wikipedia.org].
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