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Huge thanks to @drraoulmclaughlin7423 for his work compiling the sources, from:
Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, Pliny The Elder, Travels of Egeria

Edited by Luiz Murphy
Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza
Herodotus section art by Bilal Erlangga
Art by Alex Stoica

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00:00 Herodotus (454 BC)
04:40 D. Siculus - Greek Visiting Egypt (60 BC)
09:32 Strabo - Greco-Roman with the Roman Army (20 BC)
13:18 Pliny The Elder - Roman Historian (77 AD)
18:06 Egeria - Roman Christian (381 AD)