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snorkelingatheist t1_jb3abw5 wrote

I don't understand this sentence (nothing to do with whales, but confusing)

In the Naturalist – a 2,000-year-old text that “preserves zoological
information brought to Egypt from India and the Middle East by early
natural historians like Herodotus, Ctesias, Aristotle and Plutarch” –
the ancient Greeks referred to the creature as aspidochelone.

How & why would Herodotus, Aristotle &co be bringing information " to Egypt from India & the Middle East" ?? Are any of them thought to have visited India? &, if so, it seems to me they would have brought the info to Greece, not to Egypt. I don't remember the dates, but there couldn't have been much going on in Alexandria at that period, if Aristotle did visit the place.

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snorkelingatheist t1_jcie1uy wrote

I see I got some upvotes on this, but I was/am asking a question. The statements i'm querying seem to me hazy & inexact. Does anybody know the source of this "information?"

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