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Legendary Lost Persian Army Found in Sahara
FOXNews ^ | 11/9/09 | Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni

Posted on 11/09/2009 5:18:05 PM PST by LibWhacker

Herodotus wrote of a 50,000-man strong army that set out on foot into the Egyptian desert in 525 B.C. and was never heard from again ... until today.

A pair of Italian archaeologists have uncovered bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert. Twin brothers Angelo and Alfredo Castiglioni are hopeful that they've finally found the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II.

According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Cambyses II and his armied were buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C. He wrote, "a wind arose from the south, strong and deadly, bringing with it vast columns of whirling sand, which entirely covered up the troops and caused them wholly to disappear."

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TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: 525bc; archaeology; army; cambyses; desert; egypt; elkhargeh; godsgravesglyphs; herodotus; history; lost; lostarmy; pereset; persian; persianempire; sahara; sandstorm; science
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1 posted on 11/09/2009 5:18:07 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
More here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33791672/ns/technology_and_science-science/
2 posted on 11/09/2009 5:23:35 PM PST by LibWhacker (America awake!)
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To: SunkenCiv; nuconvert; freedom44; Cyrus the Great; LibreOuMort; sionnsar; DGHoodini; FARS; ...
Fascinating. An archeologist's gold mine.

The Achaemenid "violin" shields were neat.

Iran History Ping!

3 posted on 11/09/2009 5:24:02 PM PST by SolidWood (Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
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To: LibWhacker

It had to have been George Bush’s fault.


4 posted on 11/09/2009 5:24:05 PM PST by donhunt ("Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: LibWhacker

I told them LEFT at the SECOND sand dune.....


5 posted on 11/09/2009 5:24:54 PM PST by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: LibWhacker

Cool.


6 posted on 11/09/2009 5:26:00 PM PST by El Sordo
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To: SolidWood

Sorry, Iran does not exist. It is called Persia.


7 posted on 11/09/2009 5:27:20 PM PST by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: edcoil

ROFL X’s 2


8 posted on 11/09/2009 5:28:09 PM PST by mcmuffin (Will American patriots and freedom prevail?)
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To: edcoil

Huh? If that’s a joke, it’s lost on me.


9 posted on 11/09/2009 5:29:54 PM PST by SolidWood (Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
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To: edcoil

The first shah of Iran asked that the world refer to his country as “Iran.” Persia is the Western corruption of the Pars tribe, the first Aryan settlers in the region. Iran means “land of the Aryans.”


10 posted on 11/09/2009 5:33:32 PM PST by G8 Diplomat (A penny saved is a penny paid in taxes)
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To: edcoil
At the time of their disappearance, they were following a rabbit who said, “Maybe I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque...”
11 posted on 11/09/2009 5:33:38 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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WTF? Herotodus got something *right* ?

Cheers!

12 posted on 11/09/2009 5:33:50 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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I wish that would happen to the Basij and Mullahs.


13 posted on 11/09/2009 5:34:16 PM PST by omega4179
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To: grey_whiskers
Herodotus got quite a bit right, there is a good reason he is called ‘the first historian’. He records what he heard, many things quite fantastical, but says of many things “this I saw with my own eye.”

Travel guides in the Middle Ages had the East populated by headless people with faces in their torso's and other fantastical creatures. Herodotus was a shining beacon of truth compared to such rubbish.

14 posted on 11/09/2009 5:40:03 PM PST by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be RE-distributed?)
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WOW! I've waited over twenty-five years (hey, I'm only 51) since I first read about this; I'll have to post some of the archival stuff from my folder, "Cambyses' Lost Army". Meanwhile, Happy Belated Birthday, Herodotus, oh Father of History!

Thanks LibWhacker!

Of course, this has been announced before, and turned out to be incorrect, but I'm FIRED UP (in case no one could tell).

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15 posted on 11/09/2009 5:45:31 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SolidWood

Put a spear in the cleft and you have a Shield Wall, an interlocking wall of Iron Points. The Ancient Greeks did the same thing, the troops were better armored though.


16 posted on 11/09/2009 5:45:57 PM PST by Little Bill (Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)
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To: allmendream
Aye. I stand convicted of exaggeration, thereby being hoist on me'own petard. A'RRRRR.

Cheers!

17 posted on 11/09/2009 5:46:25 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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[’Civ shoots a rubber band at GW while he’s looking the other way]


18 posted on 11/09/2009 5:47:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SolidWood
Whoops, sorry!

Thanks SolidWood


19 posted on 11/09/2009 5:49:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: G8 Diplomat

Shah’s are all gone. I know a lot of Iranians and a lot in my daughters school and they prefer to say they are from Persia. I always ask where is Persia. Just to tick them off.

My experience.


20 posted on 11/09/2009 5:56:36 PM PST by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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