Herodotus' place in history One notable feature of Herodotus' writing is that it explores many different stories away from the main subject of "Histories." ...

Those who did archaeological exploration in Egypt and Mesopotamia found Herodotus’ writings on these subjects useful. His writings also became valuable to biblical scholars in their study of ...

We Can Thank Herodotus, the ‘Father of History,’ for Our Knowledge of the Ancient World One of the first to attempt to write down an account of the past, Herodotus helped establish a historical ...

Ancient Nile Shipwreck Finally Proves Herodotus Was Right About Seeing ‘Unusual Riverboats’ 2,469 Years Ago For centuries, the glorious works of Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian often ...

For Herodotus, considered the “Father of History” (first called that by Cicero), was indeed breaking new ground, mixing fact and fable, anthropology and reportage, eyewitness accounts and the ...

Only a few poems of the Greek poetess Sappho’s work have survived but thanks to a leading scholar’s investigation two new works have just been recovered—and gives experts hope to find more.

Other archaeological discoveries in recent years have also confirmed some of Herodotus’ writings, such as the re-examination of a large royal Scythian kurgan in southern Ukraine.

In their writings, Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus tie the First Battle of Himera to other Greek triumphs, writing that the victories at the Battle of Thermopylae and the Battle of Salamis happened ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek writer known as the father of histories, dubbed by his detractors as the father of lies. Herodotus (c484 to 425 BC or later) was raised in Halicarnassus ...

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

Herodotus was committed to understanding the human causes of conflict and war. He gathered stories — some believable, others not — to show how different cultures understand themselves ...