Explanation: Herodotus was a Greek writer who is known as both Father of History and Father of Lies - the first because he was the founder of the Western academic tradition of history, trying, for the first time, to weave disparate facts and happenings into a coherent narrative whole that examined the causes and effects of the course of events. The latter because he was not always rigorous in checking to make sure those facts and happenings were true (though he does a damn sight better than predecessors who uncritically repeated outright mythology).

Every once in a while a claim of Herodotus that has been rejected by modern scholarship for years turns out to be true by archeological evidence.

Now I want a t-shirt that says “Herodotus was right.”

Can’t wait for the evidence that Tomyris was real