{"date":"January 26","id":"01-26","intro":["A king who entombed his daughter in a golden cow—the worship of the bull and the cat—scandal of the court and the gossip of the temples is given by Herodotus in his delightful story of old Egypt."],"minutes":27,"readings":[{"author":"Herodotus","end":75,"start":65,"volume":33,"work":"An Account of Egypt"}],"slug":"january-26","status":"proofread","title":"In the Cradle of Civilization","url":"/harvard-classics/january-26/","words":5332}