“Herodotus, the famed ancient Greek historian, lied about a pivotal battle between the Greeks and the Carthaginians, a new study finds.” —Live Science LIE: Cyrus the Great founded the Persian Empire.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write a weekly profile on the Great Books. Plutarch has an essay titled On the Malice of Herodotus, where he notes, among other ...

“The Histories” by Herodotus, translated by Tom Holland, introduction and notes by Paul Cartledge (Penguin Classics Deluxe, 880 pages, $23, paperback) It’s not often that an ancient Greek historian ...

Herodotus is well known as the “father of history”. As the first writer to use the Greek “historie,” meaning an inquiry, when speaking of examining the events of the past, his seminal work The ...

Nearly two dozen eminent historians from eight countries have come to the Turkish Aegean for a workshop on Herodotus, known as the “Father of History.” Starting on Wednesday, the International ...

Armenians, a population in Western Asia historically inhabiting the Armenian highlands, were long believed to be descendants of Phrygian settlers from the Balkans. This theory originated largely from ...

History—the rational and methodical study of the human past—was invented by a single man just under twenty-five hundred years ago; just under twenty-five years ago, when I was starting a graduate ...

A claim regarding an unusual manner of debate apparently practiced by ancient Persians has appeared on social media every so often. According to the claim, men in the Persian Empire would debate ideas ...