With the Persian monarch Kambýsem II. are also one of the great ancient mystery. According to the Greek historian herodotus, he the Persians after the conquest of the capital city in Egypt fought only in the vast desert isolated oasis Síwa, which housed the famous oracle of the god Amun. Kambýsés therefore sent to the desert army with 50 thousand soldiers. Herodotus then describes how the Persian army on the way to the oasis caught in a great sandstorm and a whole army swallowed by the desert.
New insight into the issue brought egyptologist Olaf Kaper from Leiden university, which dealt with the excavations in the locality of Amheida in the oasis of Dakhla. Here then he found an inscription, from which it can be deduced that the situation was a little different - namely, that it was a camouflage of the true story, because the Persian army was the remnants of the egyptian army led by Petubastisem III. slaughtered.
The creator of "legend" then became apparently the heir to the throne of Darius I., who tried to cover up the true history of an egyptian-Persian conflict.
More then:
www.hum.leiden.edu
www.sci-news.com
www.archaeology.org
http://www.osel.cz/index.php?clanek=7658.
New insight into the issue brought egyptologist Olaf Kaper from Leiden university, which dealt with the excavations in the locality of Amheida in the oasis of Dakhla. Here then he found an inscription, from which it can be deduced that the situation was a little different - namely, that it was a camouflage of the true story, because the Persian army was the remnants of the egyptian army led by Petubastisem III. slaughtered.
The creator of "legend" then became apparently the heir to the throne of Darius I., who tried to cover up the true history of an egyptian-Persian conflict.
More then:
www.hum.leiden.edu
www.sci-news.com
www.archaeology.org
http://www.osel.cz/index.php?clanek=7658.