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Now, let's read and relax.

Find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath in.

Let it out slowly. And off we go. Tonight let's relax with more from one of the Western world's first historians and read more from an account of Egypt by Herodotus, translated in 1890 by George Campbell Macaulay. Let's begin.

There are about Thebes sacred serpents, not at all harmful to men, which are small in size,

and have two horns growing from the top of the head. These they bury when they die in the

temple of Zeus. For to this God they say they are sacred.

There is a region moreover in Arabia, situated nearly over against the city of Bhutto,

to which place I came to inquire about the winged serpents.

And when I came thither, I saw bones of serpents and spines in quantity so great that it is impossible to make

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