History is the study of the past, Historiography is the study of how we study the past. In antiquity, the discipline of history and preserving the facts of both the past and the present was burgeoning, and scholars such as Herodotus of Halicarnassus are heralded as the 'fathers of history'. Herodotus is so known for the critical approach he took to documenting history. He travelled far to collect information and was one of the first people to mark the difference in reliability between sources of information (what we now know as primary and secondary sources). This trickled down into the methods of later scholars, such as Thucydides, who documented the Peloponnesian war in systematic detail.
