A new study finds molecular evidence that Scythians drank horse milk, confirming a long-debated claim by ancient Greek ...

The remains of a long-lost vessel once described by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus have been discovered by researchers off the northern coast of Egypt. The ship, called a baris, was detailed by ...

Herodotus is known as the "father of history." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian born ...

Herodotus is well known as the “father of history”. As the first writer to use the Greek “historie,” meaning an inquiry, when speaking of examining the events of the past, his seminal work The ...

Widely considered one of the first serious works of history, Histories—written in the 5th century BCE by the Greek scholar Herodotus—is a highly influential account of the Greco-Persian wars, and ...

Herodotus is the most entertaining of historians. Indeed, he is as entertaining as anyone who has ever written, historian or not. His great work is many things – the first example of non-fiction, the ...

Does the Biblical story of the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt appear in Greek mythology? This article examines some possibilities.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Towards the end of Herodotus' Histories, someone on the losing side of a fight is castrated by his sons, then crucified while those kids ...

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. It is easy to see why Herodotus’ Histories may seem overwhelming. Too much is going on, right from the start. We have only ...

Herodotus: The Histories. Translated by Tom Holland. Penguin Classics; 834 pages; £25. Buy from Amazon.co.uk OVER the course of the past decade Tom Holland, a British popular historian, has produced a ...