What about The Mystery of missing 50,000 Persian army in the Egyptian desert?(part two)
8/16/2014 04:00:00 PM
hello everybody,In the past article we
talked about king
Cambyses II and his activities till his death
so In this article
we are going
to talk about
the Mystery of missing 50,000
Persian army in the
Egyptian desert
so lets go
What about the
disappearance of the Persian army?
The disappearance
of Cambyses II army remains veiled with secrets. All his army vanished in the
western desert on their way to Siwa oasis along with all their weapons
and
other equipment, never to be heard of
again .
Cambyses II probably sent his army to Siwa oasis to
seek and seize
legitimization of his rule from the oracle of Amun , much as alexander the
great would do.
Legitimizing his
rule does not fully explain the need for
taking such a large army to Siwa
Oasis.
Maybe the priests
of the oracle were posing a danger to Cambyses II`s rule, encouraging revolt
among the
Egyptians.
Perhaps the
priests felt angry that Cambyses II had not
immediately sought their approval
as Alexander the Great would do almost upon his arrival in Egypt.
Another reason is
that the army was continue on after
Siwa in order to attack the Libyans.
According to
Herodotus (as later reported to him by the inhabitants of Siwa ),after many
days of struggle through soft sand the troops were resting one morning
when
calamity struck without warning.
As they were at
their breakfast, a wind arose from the
south , strong and deadly, bringing with
it vast columns of whirling sand , which buried the troops and caused them utterly
to disappear.
B- what`s new
about the disappearance of the Persian
army?
The Holland
archaeologist Kaper announced about a new discovery in the Dakhla Oasis in
Egypt belongs to a Persian army of 50 thousand troops .
He said that they
discovered for the first time blocks of stone from the remains of a temple in
the region, " Amheida, in the Dachla Oasis. bearing the titles of
the king Petubastis III who faced the Persian invasion against egypt
And kaper added
that it’s the first time to discover inscriptions belong to Petubastis III in this site , "
Amheida, in the Dachla Oasis
As he has
inscriptions
1-in Memphis
south of Giza
2- in Louvre
These excavations
dedicate that the army of Cambyses II was defeated the Persian army
He added,
"Since the nineteenth century, many looking for this army; amateur
archaeologists and professionals .. some
expected to find it somewhere .. a whole army with all its equipment, but
by experience in the desert, no way
someone die because of a sand storm, so what
about a whole army?
Also kaper said
that he will tell us about the details during this year
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