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Chapter 7
Secret Writing
inAncient Civilization
7.1 STEGANOGRAPHY
It is dicult to specify when secret writing started in ancient civilization.
Some of the earliest accounts of secret writing date back to Herodotus
(c.484–c. 425 BC), who in his text Histories describes the conict between
Greece and Persia in the h century BC. According to Histories, secret
writing by a Spartan saved Greece from being conquered by Xerxes I
(the Great) of Persia, who reigned from 485 to 465 BC. Herodotus was
an ancient Greek historian and was regarded as the Father of History in
Western culture. e Greek word historia passed into Latin and took on
its modern ...