Hermione Wrote:
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> Hans Wrote:
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> > Hermione Wrote:
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>
> ...
>
> > > (I'm just wondering now (given that the Nile
> is
> > > today about 5 miles from the GP) whether the
> > > legend about the canal reflects some dim
> memory
> > of
> > > Ro-She-Khufu (see e.g. here
> > >
> >
> [www.aeraweb.org]
> > > pgs 1-3). I presume this possible
> association
> > has
> > > already been discussed elsewhere ... )
> >
> > Probably there might have been identifiable
> ruins
> > of said harbor and perhaps a canal to the Nile.
>
> Well ... but those ruins weren't visible in
> Herodotus' time, were they ... ? Or were they?
>
> And there's this:
>
>

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... a cut was made from the Nile, so that
> the site of these into an island [de Selincourt
> 1972: 179: Hdt. Bk II, 126]

>
> There are countless problems with Herodotus, of
> course, including the question of whether he
> actually visited Egypt at all, let alone visited
> Giza in person (see e.g., Did Herodotus Ever Go to
> Egypt? O. Kimball Armayor, JARCE, Vol. 15 (1978),
> pp. 59-73: 70-71).
>
> However, even if Herodotus was just at home
> listening to some Egyptian priests who happened to
> be visiting, what the priests said is still an
> indication of contemporary belief about the
> pyramids.

Long ago I read that he may have been an 'information spider and armchair traveler', questioning those who traveled instead of traveling himself. There was commerce with Egypt and the Greek colony of Naukratis so a steady stream of informed folks that might show up. He was born in what is now Anataolia , and later lived in a colony in Italy plus he had dealing with Athens.