Herodotus wrote about the Egyptians in the fifth century B.C.E.

Herodotus is the famous Greek who wrote about the Egyptians in the fifth century B.C.E.

Herodotus has been called the “father of history.” An engaging narrator with a deep interest in the customs of the people he described, he remains the leading source of original historical information not only for Greece between 550 and 479 BCE but also for much of western Asia and Egypt at that time.