Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

What they say this bird manages to do is incredible to me. Flying from Arabian Peninsula [45,25] (region (general)), AsiaArabia to the temple of the sun, they say, he conveys his father encased in myrrh and buries him at the temple of the Sun.