Mystery Surrounding Lost Army of Persian King Cambyses II May Have Been Solved

Sci-News ^ | June 19, 2014 | Enrico de Lazaro

[BenLurkin]

Interesting!

[Larry Lucido]

after which he let himself be crowned Pharaoh in the capital, Memphis.”

I think I've heard "King," but not "Pharoah."

[MaxMax]

Bush’s fault.

[Holdem Or Foldem]

Actually, George Bush is the 157th great grandson on his mothers side. Cousin marriages that far back have had time to work out the inbreeding recessives out of the lines.

[V K Lee]

It’s the MOOPS

[Robwin]

we know that [Herodotus] was basically always reliable as a reteller of what he hear or a when he described what he saw...

Quite true but skepticism arises from the fact Herodotus was a "reteller". He honestly wrote down what he was told but never checked to see if what he was told was true. Still, a great historian given his times.

[Mmogamer]

And who declared you can’t die in a sandstorm? In the middle of the desert?

[Fiji Hill]

I've also heard of pharaohs.

[blam]

Louie, Louie
(Richard Berry and The Pharaohs)

Louie, Louie,
(The Kingsmen)

Louie, Louie
(Paul Revere And The Raiders)

[Larry Lucido]

Same Pharoahs as these?

[Domangart]

Why mot. We found entire Chines army frozen in place. Wind and sand can cause exposure.

[Sherman Logan]

However, experience has long shown that you cannot die from a sandstorm,” he said.

True, the sand isn't going to kill you.

However, an extended sandstorm will do a dandy job of immobilizing and disorienting you while you die from exposure and thirst. Also really, really hard on draft animals other than camels. Persians were big on cavalry.

[SunkenCiv]

Carl Sagan spelled pharaoh “pharoah”, but that’s not surprising.

There’s a pretty little thing, waiting for the King, down in the jungle room, btw.

[SunkenCiv]

Details of his history have been widely derided; his report of how the Egyptians used croc dung for certain eye ailments was hooted and mocked, until recent decades when a naturally occurring antibiotic was discovered in croc dung. Obviously the Egyptians didn’t have microbiology, and must have arrived at the point of trying this out via some kind of magical thinking, but it shows that Herodotus is accurate, with the possible exception of reproducing historical conversations or their gist, such as what the Persian King said — but even those were probably just his reporting something he was told and found credible. He wasn’t without a filter — here and there he mentions the existence of some information that he didn’t find credible, and refused to relay it, which is probably too bad. He relays three different explanations of why the Nile flood comes when it does, including the correct one (melting snows, which he states the least probable), then offers a fourth one of his own, giving a glimpse into the way the ancient Greeks understood their natural world.

[dsc]

“Just remember Desert One in the Iranian desert and it is clear what a sandstorm can do even to modern armies.”

I still hold Bozo the peanut farmer responsible for that.

[yarddog]

I attended a memorial service for the special ops troops from Hurlburt field who were killed.

I don’t know who was actually responsible for the foul up but it was a bad one. I guess in the end Jimmy Carter was responsible.

Despite that and the fact that I despise Carter, he at least did try which is more than most would have done.

At least Jimmy wasn’t a Moslem terrorist tho he probably did like them.

[dsc]

“Despite that and the fact that I despise Carter, he at least did try which is more than most would have done.”

Scuttlebutt was that Carter micromanaged that helo into the ground. He made bad decisions at more than one crucial juncture—decisions that should have been made by the special operators.

[yarddog]

He did have a reputation for micromanaging everything so I can believe that.

[hinckley buzzard]

Recurved bows were developed by the nomads of the central steppes in centuries BC. No doubt what we now call Persians had them.