Herodotus describes how Amasis II would eventually cause a confrontation with the Persian armies.

Herodotus also describes that just like his predecessor, Amasis II relied on Greek mercenaries and council men.

He was buried at the royal necropolis of Sais, and while his tomb was never discovered, Herodotus describes it for us:

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:

However, in his Histories, ix. 120 – 122, the Greek writer Herodotus describes the execution of a Persian general at the hands of Athenians in about 479 BC: " They nailed him to a plank and hung him up ... this Artayctes who suffered death by crucifixion.

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 ( 7. 64 ) describes them as Scythians, called by a different name:

Herodotus ( IV. 64 ) describes them as Scythians, although they figure under a different name:

Herodotus describes him as the saver of the Etruscans, because he led them from Lydia to Etruria.

Herodotus, a Greek historian who travelled in Egypt in the 5th century BC, describes Bastet's temple at some length:

The historian Herodotus describes how the Athenian general Miltiades deployed his forces of 10, 000 Athenian and 900 Plataean hoplites in a U formation, with the wings manned much deeper than the center.

Herodotus, writing about 30 to 40 years after the events he describes, did, according to Miller ( 2006 ) in fact base his version of the battle on eyewitness accounts, so it seems altogether likely that Pheidippides was an actual historical figure, although the same source claims the classical author didn't ever in fact mention a Marathon-Athens runner in any of his writings.

Herodotus also describes the Scythian Budini as having deep blue eyes and bright red hair.

Herodotus describes how, on the eve of battle and faced with the formidable Persian expeditionary force, the Athenians had despaired of the Spartans, or indeed anyone else, coming to their aid in what seemed to be impossible odds.

There ´ s not much known about Khafra, except the historical reports of Herodotus, who describes Khafra as a cruel and heretic ruler, who closed the Egyptian temples.

The earliest literary reference to a winch can be found in the account of Herodotus of Halicarnassus on the Persian Wars ( Histories 7. 36 ), where he describes how wooden winches were used to tighten the cables for a pontoon bridge across the Hellespont in 480 B. C.

Herodotus describes the ' Immortals ' as being heavy infantry led by Hydarnes that were kept constantly at a strength of exactly 10, 000 men.

Herodotus describes their armament as follows: wicker shields, short spears, swords or large daggers, bow and arrow.

Herodotus, in his fifth-century BC Histories, describes the Scythians processing of mare's milk:

Herodotus next describes the spread of the revolt ( thus also in 498 BC ), and says that the Cypriots had one year of freedom, therefore placing the action in Cyprus to 497 BC.

However, the cities that Herodotus describes Daurises as besieging were on the Hellespont, which ( by Herodotus's own reckoning ) did not become involved in the revolt until after Ephesus.

The Persian actions that Herodotus describes at the Hellespont and in Caria seem to be in the same year, and most commentators place them in 497 BC.

Herodotus describes them as the " best and bravest " () among Thebans.

Herodotus describes a story that explains why there were only a few Greek men at the Battle of Thermopylae since " all other men were participating in the Olympic Games " and that the prize for the winner was " an olive-wreath ".

Aristagoras fell out with Megabates on the journey towards Naxos, and Herodotus says that Megabates then sent messengers to Naxos, warning the Naxians of the forces's intention.

The Greek historian Herodotus described the hippopotamus in The Histories ( written circa 440 BC ) and the Roman Historian Pliny the Elder wrote about the hippopotamus in his encyclopedia Naturalis Historia ( written circa 77 AD ).

Ancient map from Herodotus showing the area of Libya in north Africa, circa 450 BC

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 ).

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.

Herodotus described Scythians inhaling the fumes of burning leaves in 500 B. C.

* About 500 BC: ( Information originally from Herodotus ): During a naval campaign the Greek Scyllis was taken aboard ship as prisoner by the Persian King Xerxes I.

The historian Herodotus writes about the cultivation of sesame 3, 500 years ago in the region of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Hecataeus of Miletus ( 500 BCE ) and Herodotus ( 483 – 431 BCE ) also wrote about the Indus Satrapy of the Persians.

By 500 BC they had the sounding lead ( Herodotus 2. 5 ).

The oldest known mention of " Atlantic " is in The Histories of Herodotus around 450 BC ( Hdt.

The word is attested in Herodotus, who wrote some of the first surviving Greek prose, but this may not have been before 440 or 430 BC.

The account which Herodotus gives of the hostilities between the two states in the early years of the 5th century BC is to the following effect.

All the incidents subsequent to the appeal of Athens to Sparta are expressly referred by Herodotus to the interval between the sending of the heralds in 491 BC and the invasion of Datis and Artaphernes in 490 BC ( cf.

# Herodotus nowhere states or implies that peace was concluded between the two states before 481 BC, nor does he distinguish between different wars during this period.

It is probable, therefore, that Herodotus is in error both in tracing back the beginning of hostilities to an alliance between Thebes and Aegina ( c. 507 BC ) and in putting the episode of Nicodromus before Marathon.

But its prosperity dates from 544 BC, when the majority of the people of Teos ( including the poet Anacreon ) migrated to Abdera to escape the Persian yoke ( Herodotus i. 168 ).

Herodotus, who has been called the ' Father of History ', was born in 484 BC in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor ( then under Persian overlordship ).

As early as 490 BC a breed of large horses was bred in the Nisaean plain in Media to carry men with increasing amounts of armour ( Herodotus 7, 40 & 9, 20 ).

Herodotus ( 484 c BC – 425 c BC ) attests that the Gandarian mercenaries ( i. e. Gandharans / Kambojans of Gandari Strapy of Achaemenids ) from the 20th strapy of the Achaemenids were recruited in the army of emperor Xerxes I ( 486-465 BC ), which he led against the Hellas.

Herodotus tells us that c. 482 BC Xerxes I ( the son of Darius ) had two pontoon bridges built across the width of the Hellespont at Abydos in order that his huge army could cross from Persia into Greece.

Early conceptions of ecology, such as a balance and regulation in nature can be traced to Herodotus ( died c. 425 BC ), who described one of the earliest accounts of mutualism in his observation of " natural dentistry ".

Herodotus visited Egypt in the 5th century BC and recounts a story he was told about vaults under the pyramid built upon an island where lay the body of Cheops.

* 440 BC: Herodotus defends the Athenian political freedom in the Histories.

The earliest known critical historical works were The Histories, composed by Herodotus of Halicarnassus ( 484 BC – c.

Herodotus (; Hēródotos ) was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria ( modern day Bodrum, Turkey ) and lived in the fifth century BC ( 484 – 425 BC ).

In 425 BC, which is about the time that Herodotus is thought by many scholars to have died, the Athenian comic dramatist, Aristophanes, created The Acharnians, in which he blames The Peloponnesian War on the abduction of some prostitutes-a mocking reference to Herodotus, who reported the Persians ' account of their wars with Greece, beginning with the rapes of the mythical heroines Io, Europa, Medea and Helen.

Herodotus was born at Halicarnassus around 484 BC.

Herodotus ( 5th century BC ), the great Greek historian ; one of the earliest historians whose work survives.

Concerning Herodotus ( 5th century BC ), one of the earliest historians whose work survives, his recount of strange and unusual tales are gripping but not necessarily representative of the historical record.