How i love Herodotus! He was reviled as a fabulist, when he was anything but. He reported what people told him; he reported what he knew; he traveled the known world to investigate leads.
And more and more of his “fables” have turned out to be facts.
It’s amusing and bemusing to see Herodotus confirmed by a new discovery here or there, when the article about it is written by someone who claims it disconfirms him “once again”.