This image is from 1897 and is a copy of a bust of Herodotus (his name in the Greek alphabet below). Herodotus (c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire. He is known for having written the book The Histories, a detailed record of his "inquiry" on the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars

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