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' '' Histories'', a man-made island of ash and earth where the blind

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ian king

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lived during his 50 years of exile while the

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n king Sabacos ruled Egypt. Supposedly, the island was built up because Egyptians who were bringing food to Anysis were also told to bring him ashes as a gift.Herodotus: ''The Histories''., Book 2 Paragraph 40page 151. Oxford University Press, 1998. Elbo and Anysis are unknown except outside of Herodotus, but Sabacos may refer to Shabaka, a

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ite pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-fifth Dynasty. As Heroditus states in Book II of his ''Histories'':

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