The Persian Empire's Lost Army: Cambyses and the 50,000 Who Vanished — Fexingo History

Around 525 BCE, Cambyses II, the son of Cyrus the Great, conquered Egypt and then set his sights west on the Siwa Oasis. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, he dispatched an army of 50,000 soldiers into the desert. They never reached their...