[SunkenCiv]

from the wiki-wacky:

Croesus turned to the Delphic oracle and the oracle of Amphiaraus and the oracles answered, with typical ambiguity, that if Croesus attacked the Persians, he would destroy a great empire... The oracles also advised Croesus to find out which Greek state was most powerful and to ally himself with it. Croesus, now feeling secure, formed an alliance with Sparta in addition to those he had with Amasis II of Egypt and Nabonidus of Babylonia, and launched his campaign against the Persian Empire in 547 BC. (The scholar Evans in 1978 examines the conflicting dates implied in Herodotus.) ...Cyrus... attacked and defeated Croesus in Thymbria and later in Sardis, eventually capturing him. It became clear that the powerful empire destroyed by the war was Croesus's own.

one of *those* topics.

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[Red Badger]

They would have found it earlier, but they were packed like Sardines.............