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Pliny the Elder Wrote that were ruins on Tenerife when Carthaginians visited there yet (to my knowledge) there's no other evidence of an urban civilisation having existed on the island (that far back). How plausible is it that either Pliny or the Carthaginians were just making it up?

by /u/grapp in /r/AskHistorians

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