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Cf "Herodotus, a 5th-century BC Greek historian is often considered within the Western tradition to be the "father of history", .." and then the List of oldest documents, with documents from

1. 25th century BCE
2. 21st century BCE
3. 18th century BCE
4. 14th century BCE
5. 2nd century BCE,

don't show any documents which Herodotus must have had access to in order to practise history and his historic method. Can anybody help out explaining/completing that?

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Thy SvenAERTS ( talk) 04:51, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Please note that the list is qualified by documents which still exist and are somehow notable for being the oldest document of their particular kind. The simple answer is that Herodotus's sources have not survived. — jmcgnh ^{(talk)  (contribs)} 07:13, 30 December 2019 (UTC)