Prof. Dario Del Bufalo

The Lost Army of King Cambyses

In Book III of “The Histories” (between 490-480 BC), Herodotus of Halicarnassus tells of the Persian king Cambyses, who after having conquered Egypt in 525 BC, sent an army of 50,000 men to the Western Desert (Egypt) to destroy the oasis of Siwa, site of the oracle of the god, Zeus Ammon. Herodotus related “… the Persians sent to...