Herodotus, in the 5th century BC, mentioned parts of the myth in his description of Egypt in The Histories, and four centuries later, Diodorus Siculus provided a summary of the myth in his Bibliotheca historica.

Herodotus provides the first detailed description of the Scythians.

The description offered by Herodotus and several Egyptian texts suggest that water surrounded the temple on three ( out of four ) sides, forming a type of lake known as isheru,

Presumably following Herodotus ' description, the occultist Eliphas Levi in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie ( 1855 ) called his goat-headed conception of Baphomet the " Baphomet of Mendes ", thus popularizing and perpetuating this incorrect attribution, which has given rise to a flood of spurious connections, such as " The Goat of Mendes " by the blackened death metal band Akercocke.

Herodotus adds an account and description of later Mysians who fought in Darius ' army.

Herodotus description matches modern geography in the following manner:

Elsewhere, he included a geographical description of Babylonia, similar to that found in Herodotus ( on Egypt ), and used Greek classifications.

The following is the description which Herodotus gives of Bubastis, as it appeared shortly after the period of the Persian invasion, 525 BC, and Hamilton remarks that the plan of the ruins remarkably warrants the accuracy of this historical eye-witness.

The closet thing to a contemporaneous source for the description of the battle is, as for many events in this time period, the Histories of Herodotus ( written approximately fifty years later, circa 440 BC ).

The Greek historian Herodotus mentions the river as the Pantikapes in his Histories ( 4. 54 ), during his description of the land of Scythia.

The earliest description of the region is found in Herodotus, who identified as Scythia the region starting north of the Danube delta.

During the 5th century BCE, the colony was visited by Herodotus, who provides our best description of the city and its inhabitants from Antiquity.

Herodotus, in his Histories, Book II, gives a detailed if selectively coloured and imaginative description of ancient Egypt.

According to Herodotus, Amasis, was asked by Cambyses II or Cyrus the Great for an Egyptian ophthalmologist on good terms.

Leonard Kouba and Judith Muasher write that genitally-mutilated females have been found among Egyptian mummies, and that Herodotus ( c. 484 BCE – c. 425 BCE ) referred to the practice when he visited Egypt.

Herodotus connected Heracles both to Phoenician god Melqart and to the Egyptian god Shu.

* As the Egyptian Herodotus was given to understand, the craftsman-god Ptah was a dwarf.

Herodotus reported a temple to her in Egypt supposedly attached to a floating island called " Khemmis " in Buto, which also included a temple to an Egyptian god Greeks identified by interpretatio graeca as Apollo.

A story recorded by Herodotus, and later by Strabo, Athenaeus, Ovid and the Suda, tells of a relation between Charaxus and the Egyptian courtesan Rhodopis.

Herodotus mentions that the Egyptian pharaoh Necho II ( 610 – 595 BC ) built triremes on the Nile, for service in the Mediterranean, and in the Red Sea, but this reference is disputed by modern historians, and attributed to a confusion, since " triērēs " was by the 5th century used in the generic sense of " warship ", regardless its type.

It is ascribed to Herodotus, supposedly to describe the basking habits of the Egyptian crocodile.

Herodotus claimed Nile crocodiles had a symbiotic relationship with certain birds, such as the Egyptian plover, which enter the crocodile's mouth and pick leeches feeding on the crocodile's blood ; with no evidence of this interaction actually occurring in any crocodile species, it is most likely mythical or allegorical fiction.

Also according to Herodotus ( III. 139 ), Darius, prior to seizing power and " of no consequence at the time ", had served as a spearman ( doryphoros ) in the Egyptian campaign ( 528 – 525 BCE ) of Cambyses II, then the Persian Great King.

* c. 484 – 425 BC Herodotus tells us Egyptian doctors were specialists: Medicine is practiced among them on a plan of separation ; each physician treats a single disorder, and no more.

Herodotus adds weight to the " Egyptian " version of events by putting forward his own evidence — he traveled to Egypt and interviewed the priests of the temple of ( Foreign Aphrodite, ξείνης Ἀφροδίτης ) at Memphis.

Some current historians tend to believe Herodotus ' account, primarily because he stated with disbelief that the Phoenicians " as they sailed on a westerly course round the southern end of Libya ( Africa ), they had the sun on their right-to northward of them " ( The Histories 4. 42 ) -- in Herodotus ' time it was not known that Africa extended south past the equator ; however, Egyptologists also point out that it would have been extremely unusual for an Egyptian Pharaoh to carry out such an expedition.

Some of the first historical accounts of Egypt were given by Herodotus, Strabo, Diodorus Siculus and the largely lost work of Manetho, an Egyptian priest, during the reign of Ptolemy I and Ptolemy II in the 3rd century BC.

Herodotus ( Histories 2: 54 – 57 ) was told by priests at Egyptian Thebes in the 5th century BCE " that two priestesses had been carried away from Thebes by Phoenicians ; one, they said they had heard was taken away and sold in Libya, the other in Hellas ; these women, they said, were the first founders of places of divination in the aforesaid countries.

Since Herodotus, Typhon has been identified by some scholars with the Egyptian Set.

The story about this treasury in Pausanias bears a great resemblance to that which Herodotus relates of the treasury of the Egyptian king Rhampsinitus.

The Greek historian, Herodotus ( c. 484-425 BC ), noted that the Egyptian citizens of Sais in Egypt worshipped Neith and that they identified her with Athena.

The word " obelisk " as used in English today is of Greek rather than Egyptian origin because Herodotus, the Greek traveller, was one of the first classical writers to describe the objects.

The Egyptian god Osiris and the Greek god Dionysus had been equated as long ago as the 5th century BC by the historian Herodotus ( see interpretatio graeca ).

A word used to denote a very old-fashioned individual ( bekkeselene !, line 398 ) might have been an allusion by Aristophanes to Herodotus ' account of an experiment by the Egyptian Pharaoh to determine humanity's original language, which Pharaoh concluded to be Phrygian on the grounds that the Phrygian word for bread ( bekkos ) was the first word spoken by some infants who had never been taught to speak.

According to Herodotus the ancient Egyptian demigods began 11, 340 years before the reign of Seti I ( 1290 BC ), so 11, 340 + 1290 = 12, 630 BC, while he listed earlier figures, 15, 000 and 17, 000, for the reign of the gods.

* Labyrinth of Egypt Archaeological site reconstruction and 3D diagrams based on the writings of Herodotus and Strabo.

His mortuary temple at Hawara ( near the Fayum ), is accompanied by a pyramid and may have been known to Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus as the " Labyrinth ".

The huge mortuary temple that originally stood adjacent to this pyramid is believed to have formed the basis of the complex of buildings with galleries and courtyards called a " labyrinth " by Herodotus ( see quote at Labyrinth ), and mentioned by Strabo and Diodorus Siculus.

Herodotus, in Book II of his Histories, describes as a " labyrinth " a building complex in Egypt, " near the place called the City of Crocodiles ," that he considered to surpass the pyramids in its astonishing ambition:

* Herodotus, Book VIII ( 1939 )

They are first mentioned in the writings of the Ancient Greeks, in Herodotus ( Histories Book IV XCIII: " the noblest as well as the most just of all the Thracian tribes ") and Thucydides ( Peloponnesian Wars, Book II: " border on the Scythians and are armed in the same manner, being all mounted archers ").

Herodotus in Book 1, Chapter 68, describes how the Spartans uncovered in Tegea the body of Orestes which was seven cubits long — around 10 feet.

* Herodotus, Histories, Book IV – translated by Rawlinson, 1942 edition

* Herodotus, Histories, Book II.

Herodotus reports the campaign of the pharaoh in his Histories, Book 2: 159:

Histories, History of Herodotus, Book IV.

The relevant passage of Herodotus ( Histories, Book VI, 105 ... 106 →) is:

* Herodotus, The Histories, Book Six, section 108-111.

Margaret Frazer is a Herodotus award winner, two-time Minnesota Book Award nominee, and two-time Edgar award finalist.

" Historical references for the Dodecarchy and the rise of Psamtik I in power, establishing the Saitic Dynasty, are recorded in Herodotus Histories, Book II: 151-157.

Other works he wrote include Against Herodotus, The Sacred Book, On Antiquity and Religion, On Festivals, On the Preparation of Kyphi, and the Digest of Physics.

Herodotus, Book 3, 91.

However from the Histories of Herodotus, Herodotus, Book 3, 91., it is clear that a tribe by the name of SattaGydae ( or Sattagudai ) were already settled in the area around current day Ghor in Afghanistan and paid as tribute coinage and materials to the Greeks when they subjugated these areas:

The term originates from accounts in Herodotus ' The Histories ( Book 5, 92f ), Aristotle's Politics ( 1284a ), and Livy's History of Rome, Book I.

Herodotus, The Histories, Book 5, 92-f:

A century or more earlier than Theocritus, Herodotus in his Book IX mentions an Athenian councillor in Salamis, " a man named Lycidas " who, in proposing to the much put upon Greeks as a whole ( put upon by the Persian king Xerxes ), that they should entertain a compromise of their freedoms as suggested by the king and his ambassadors, who at that time had all Hellas in grip, or so they thought, that the king's proposals should be ' submitted for approval to the general assembly of the people '.

* Alan B. Lloyd, Herodotus Book II, Introduction, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1975.

Numerous ancient texts, such as the Rig Veda, composed before 1200 BCE, ( e. g. in 4. 25. 7c ), and Herodotus in his Histories composed circa 450 BCE which mentions the Pashtuns as " Paktyakai " ( Book IV v. 44 ) and as the " Aparytai " = Afridis ( Book III v. 91 ) in what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan, yet no sources before the conversion of the Pashtuns to Islam mention any Israelite or Jewish connection, nor is the Eastern Iranian language of the Pashtuns taken into account when examining the claims of Hebrew ancestry.