There are still many mysteries of ancient Egypt that has not been revealed, one of which is the disappearance of 50 thousand Persian troops in the desert of Egypt around the year 524 BC. Professor Olaf Kaper of Leiden digging puzzle historical mystery unsolved to this day.
Sandstorms as told Herodotus, the story of the Persian King Cambyses who entered the Egyptian desert near Luxor (Thebes) to bring 50 thousand Persian troops. This forces reportedly never returned, they ingested sand dune. This story has long been a subject of debate among serjarawan and Egyptologists. Meanwhile, the present invention will be announced on 18-20 June 2014 at an international conference 'Political Memory in and after the Persian Empire', Leiden University.
Mystery of the Persian army of 50 thousand Disappear
Professor Olaf Kaper also as Egyptologists have never believed that story. Since the 19th century, many people have been searching for the missing troops ranging from amateur to professional archaeologists hunter. Some are hoping to find fossils of 50 thousand Persian troops somewhere underground, but as long as it shows that the human quest rarely die due to sandstorms, especially 50 thousand troops together in the desert is very unreasonable.
Olaf Kaper it puts an entirely different explanation, according to 50 thousand Persian forces did not disappear, but was defeated. His research shows that the Persian forces not only through the desert, but the ultimate goal of their trip to Dachla Oasis, one of the leaders of the rebel forces Egyptian locations, Petubastis III. At that time he was ambushed by the Persian army of Cambyses leadership, in this way Petubastis III set strategy in Oasis to reclaim parts of Egypt. After the victory against the Persian army himself crowned Pharaoh in the capital of Memphis.
How the fate of Cambyses troops?
They remain unclear in the time period long enough for the Persian king Darius I ended the Egyptian uprising at the expense of bloodshed during the 2 years after the defeat of Cambyses. Darius I was associated with the humiliating defeat of his predecessors, with this effective manipulation during the 75 years after the defeat of the Persians, Herodotus made a historical record of the story of 50 thousand lost Persian army in the desert.
Olaf Kaper find this story quite by accident, assisted by co-rekannyua from New York University and the University of Lecce during the last ten years in excavations archaeologists in Amheida, Dachla Oasis. At the beginning of this year, he released the results of analysis pertaining to the story Petubastis III in the ancient Temple. That's when he found the answer to the puzzle unsolved Persian army.
Block temples are found to explain that all this must fortress built at the beginning of the Persian period. After historians combine with limited information about Petubastis III, the excavation site and the story of Herodotus, finally they were able to reconstruct the story really happened.
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Leiden Egyptologist ancient mystery unravels, 19 June 2014, by Leiden, Universiteit. The lost army of Cambyses II According to a nineteenth-century engraving., Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
