It came from trade. The exact provenance was not important. Herodotus tried to figure out where all the “stuff” is coming from, but mostly found stories he adm

It came from trade. The exact provenance was not important. Herodotus tried to figure out where all the “stuff” is coming from, but mostly found stories he admits are far-fetched. Modern historians take pleasure in proving his “myths” to be fact. “Apparently there is some place in Asia where gold is mined by ants!”