Greece and Rome · Herodotus, Histories 2.142
The sun rose where it now sets
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In this time they said that the sun had moved four times from his accustomed place of rising, and where he now sets he had thence twice had his rising, and in the place from whence he now rises he had twice had his setting.
Translation: Macaulay, 1890 · About the translator
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Read it literally
Egyptian priests claimed records going back 11,340 years that include the sky itself turning over.
What scholars say
Herodotus reports what priests told him; he does not claim to believe all of it.
