Porting/epigraphs - Add epigraphs for 5.38.3-RC1/5.40.1-RC1

Author: steve-m-hay

Porting/epigraphs.pod

@@ -74,6 +74,20 @@ L<Announced on 2024-07-02 by Philippe Bruhat (BooK)|https://www.nntp.perl.org/gr
   is essential to progress; for, if you know too much, you won't try
   the thing.
 
+=head2 v5.40.1-RC1 - E. H. Gombrich, trans. Caroline Mustill, "A Little History of the World"
+
+L<Announced on 2025-01-05 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2025/01/msg269400.html>
+
+Unlike Egypt, Mesopotamia was rarely ruled by just one king.  Nor did
+any single empire survive long within firm frontiers.  Many tribes and
+many kings held power at different times.  The most important of these
+were the Sumerians, the Babylonians and the Assyrians.  For a long time
+it was thought that the Egyptians were the first people to have
+everything that goes to make up what we call a culture: towns and
+tradesmen, noblemen and kings, temples and priests, administrators and
+artists, writing and technical skills.  Yet we now know that, in some
+respects, the Sumerians were ahead of the Egyptians.
+
 =head2 v5.40.0 - Neil Gaiman, Coraline
 
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@@ -199,6 +213,18 @@ in a Civil War, they embarked on the construction of the Metropolitan
 Line knowing only one thing for certain - there was no way they were
 going to be able to run steam trains through it.
 
+=head2 v5.38.3-RC1 - E. H. Gombrich, trans. Caroline Mustill, "A Little History of the World"
+
+L<Announced on 2025-01-05 by Steve Hay|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2025/01/msg269399.html>
+
+Because the Egyptians were so wise and so powerful their empire lasted
+for a very long time.  Longer than any empire the world has ever known:
+nearly three thousand years.  And they took just as much care as they
+did with their corpses, when they preserved them from rotting away, in
+preserving all their ancient traditions over the centuries.  Their
+priests made quite sure that no son did anything his father had not
+done before him.  To them, everything old was sacred.
+
 =head2 v5.38.2 - Kim Stanley Robinson
 
 (Same epigraph as for v5.34.3 and v5.36.3, as it was a joint release.)