More than 2,300 years ago, Pisias of Masalia came to the Arctic Circle and returned to his hometown. No one believed him.

When most people believe that the sun is dragged across the sky by God, Pythias came to a place where the sun will not rise all winter.

He found a place covered with permafrost, frozen oceans and floating icebergs, and he had to go home and try to explain everything he saw.

His discovery was so incredible that it took us more than a thousand years to find out that he was telling the truth.

Andrei Iascone Rupp's Arctic Explorer Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences II.

We know very little about the life of Pythias.

We heard that he was "a poor man" and went north alone without any government support.

However, beyond that, everything is speculation.

Every word he wrote was forgotten by time. Our understanding of his journey mainly comes from those who don't believe him, Auguste Odin on the Marseille Exchange (SA3) (181-1890).

0 cc) In front of the statue of Pi Ceias, it is easy to understand why the ancient world doubted that a poor sailor would travel in Ceias and succeed.

The road to the north took him across the Strait of Gibraltar, a place called Hercules Column in ancient times.

In order to pass it, he had to pass through the military blockade of Carthage army. Somehow, Pythias and his crew sneaked through the whole army-although no one knows exactly how he did it.

Modern historians have their theories, but they are actually just imagining things.

The only explanation left by the ancient world is that Pythias is a liar, but none of this really happened.

However, his report shows that somehow, he really did it.

Somehow, I sneaked past an army and went to England. As soon as I got there, I became a person sailing around the island.

He just started, the Strait of Gibraltar (public domain). After circling Britain, Pythias continued to look for an undiscovered land, where the locals promised him that he would be.

This runs counter to all the reasons-at that time, people thought there was nothing in northern England but the sea.

Pythias' trip will take him across the edge of the world. After sailing for six days, he saw a towering rocky coastline on land that he called Thule sticking out of the water.

No one knows for sure which country he discovered-maybe Iceland or Norway.

His sky record shows that he is indeed somewhere near the Arctic Circle.

He recorded how the stars above him moved. They reflect the sky you see around Iceland.

He also recorded how much the days were shortened when he traveled north.

He claimed that when he arrived there, some people lived there-if the far north was Iceland, it would be inconceivable, because this country was abandoned when he traveled 1000 years later.

He said that these people have to struggle to live in a place where there is almost no sunshine and almost no animals and plants can survive.

They live in millet, fruit and roots and can't grow anything anymore.

"There is no night in the summer solstice in Pisias.

For those who lived in the 4th century BC, this must be an incredible revelation.

He saw something that the Greeks had never seen before-a place where the sun never rose all winter, a map of the North Pole (public domain) in the16th century, which was farther north than any place where Europeans had been-but he didn't stop there.

He sailed north of Thule for a day and arrived at a place he didn't know how to describe.

He said that there is something in the water that is not "the so-called land, or the ocean, or the air, but a mixture of all these elements, similar to the sea lungs".

Today, people believe that what he is trying to describe is an ocean full of floating pancake ice.

But because there is no frame of reference to describe it, he has to turn to some strange words.

He called it "je", a substance similar to fish. "You can't walk or sail." Being blocked by the frozen ocean, Pythias was forced to return.

He has seen things that ordinary people can't imagine.

He set out from the Mediterranean, crossed the Arctic Circle, and came to a place shrouded in darkness, a place where the ocean was frozen.

Few people believed him when he came back.

Our best source is Strappo, who hates him so much that he can't even write down his name without insulting him.

When he wrote down his name, he called him "Pythias who misled others everywhere" or "Pythias who misled many people".

On the other hand, he joked that asking Pythias not to lie is like asking a juggler not to juggle. Iceland will not be colonized until 800 AD, and the era of exploration will not begin until 1400 AD. No European will see what Pythias has seen and heard for more than a thousand years, and it will take a thousand years before anyone will believe him.

Today, modern historians compare his works with what we know today and realize that what he described about the North Pole is impossible for any Greek who has never been to the North Pole. More than two thousand years after his death, Pythias was proved to be right.

Now most historians believe that he is telling the truth, but he will go to the grave like a liar and can't let the world believe what he saw.

Above: Illustrations representing ancient explorers.

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