Herodotus
Herodotus (484– 424 BCE), often dubbed "the father of history, travelled widely in Egypt, Asia, and Eastern Europe, then settled in South Italy 443 BCE.
His nine-volume history of the Greco-Persian wars and the events preceding them is one of the world's first significant prose works.
He is usually credited as the first historian to apply critical evaluations to his material while acknowledging divergent variations.
