Hermione Wrote:
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> The point is that there might have been an element
> of unintentional mistranslation ...

I will grant you that... no questions asked.




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> It's the sort of thing, of course, that's hardly
> worth reporting in a travel narrative unless he
> actually had seen it with his own eyes ...

Agreed. Ergo, I don't think he was lying when he told the story.

And regarding those who wish to ignore what Herodotus reported, allow me to quote this post:

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Are we seriously to consider as evidence hearsay from people some two thousand years after the Giza pyramids were built?
All that this kind of 'evidence' tells us is a or the tradition of who built a particular pyramid. [www.hallofmaat.com]

and from the same person:

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Hello Anthony,

You choose to class as acceptable evidence the writings of a single traveller who visited Giza two thousand years post-Khufu & Co and two thousand years before our time.

I don't. [www.hallofmaat.com]

This is what I meant.

Anthony

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.