Herodotus, ever the observer of human folly, preserves the moment—a fleeting encounter where two civilizations met, exchanged gifts, and walked away more certain than ever of their own ...

Who was Gordias, the legendary father of rich King Midas? Legend connects him to the Gordian knot, famously cut by Alexander ...

According to Herodotus, the Scythians not only drank the blood of the first man they killed and collected the scalps of their enemies: “Many too take off the skin, nails and all, from their dead ...

But Herodotus visited the pyramids 2,700 years after they were built and his impressive figure was an educated guess, based on hearsay. Modern Egyptologists believe the real number is closer to ...

In the 5th century BCE Herodotus travelled his ancient world gathering stories. One of his many prescient observations was how given the right circumstances a political strongman can emerge and ...

Per Herodotus, "They first draw out part of the brain through the nostrils with an iron hook, and inject certain drugs into the rest" to liquefy the remaining brain matter.

In a paper published in 1999, David M. Jacobson noted that the Greek name for Palestine – first entering the historical record in the writings of Herodotus in the fifth century B.C.E. – bore a ...

Exploration as a science seems to have been set on foot in the Fifth Century by Herodotus, “Father of History,” who left copious travel memoirs and gave the Atlantic Ocean its name.

Herodotus' theory on Armenian origins challenged by first whole-genome study Date: November 25, 2024 Source: Trinity College Dublin Summary: Armenians, a population in Western Asia historically ...