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Around 524 BC, fifty thousand Persian soldiers marched west from Thebes into the Western Desert of Egypt with orders to enslave the Ammonians and burn the oracle of Siwa. They never arrived, and they never came back. The only account came from the people they had been sent to destroy: the army stopped to eat, a great wind blew up from the south, and the sand buried them where they sat. For two and a half thousand years that was the whole story. Explorers, soldiers and dreamers went looking for the buried army: Laszlo Almasy, Orde Wingate, a 1983 expedition with ground radar and an ultralight aircraft, oil geologists in 2000, two Italian filmmakers in 2009. The desert gave back a bone, a bead, a rumour. Never an army. Then the Egyptologist Olaf Kaper read the inscriptions on the ruined temple blocks of Amheida in the Dakhla Oasis and found the royal titles of a forgotten rebel pharaoh, Petubastis. His theory: the army was never lost in a sandstorm. It was ambushed, and the new Persian king, Darius, had every reason to let the world remember a wind instead of a war. This is the story of Cambyses, the "mad king" Herodotus wrote about, the sacred Apis bull he was said to have murdered, and the propaganda that may have turned a military disaster into a legend. Chapters 0:00 Preview 1:00 A wind from the south 2:12 The son of Cyrus 4:01 Pharaoh of Egypt 6:05 Into the sand 8:04 A perfect story 8:41 The mad king 10:48 The hunters 13:37 The ghost king 15:26 The spin doctor 18:18 Somewhere between a wind and a lie Sources: Herodotus, Histories, book 3 (the battle of Pelusium, the three campaigns, the army sent against the Ammonians, the Apis bull, the death of Cambyses); Polyaenus, Stratagems 7.11.7 (Darius and the Apis reward); the Behistun inscription of Darius I; the Apis burial of Cambyses' reign at the Serapeum of Saqqara; Olaf Kaper, "Petubastis IV in the Dakhla Oasis: New Evidence about an Early Rebellion against Persian Rule and Its Suppression in Political Memory", in Political Memory in and after the Persian Empire (2015), and Leiden University's 2014 announcement of his findings at Amheida. Illustrations are AI-generated reconstructions. Subscribe to @nightfold1 for more of history's darkest true stories. #history #ancientegypt #persia

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