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The great mystery: How did the Persian army of 50,000 soldiers disappear in the Egyptian desert?

2022-12-10 16:55:07Histori SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The great mystery: How did the Persian army of 50,000 soldiers disappear in the
How the Persian army of 50,000 soldiers disappeared in the Egyptian desert

It is one of the greatest archaeological mysteries of all time: the disappearance of a Persian army of 50,000 soldiers in the Egyptian desert around 524 BC.

It must have been a sandstorm, wrote Herodotus. It tells the story of Cambyses, the Persian king, who had entered the Egyptian desert near Luxor (later Thives) with 50,000 men. The troops did not return; they were swallowed by a sand dune – a fantastic tale that has long been the subject of much debate.

Since the 19th century, people have been searching for this army - amateurs, then professional archaeologists.

Some expect to find an entire, fully equipped army somewhere underground. However, long experience has shown that a man cannot die in a sandstorm, let alone an entire army.

Recently, a group of archaeologists from the University of Leiden (Netherlands) went on the hunt…now, they have put forward a completely different explanation: The army did not disappear, but was lost in battle.

The fate of Cambyses' army remained unclear for so long because the Persian king Darius I, who put down a bloody Egyptian revolt two years after Cambyses' defeat, attributed his predecessor's ignominious defeat to the elements. natural.

Thanks to this effective manipulation, 75 years after the event, all Herodotus could do was take notes and write the sandstorm story.

The discovery was made by accident; studying the temple blocks, scientists noticed that they were dealing with a castle at the beginning of the Persian period.

Once this was combined with the limited information about developments in Egypt at the time, as well as the excavation site and Herodotus' story, scientists were able to reconstruct what had happened.


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