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50,000 soldiers believed buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C. have only now been discoverd – That’s amazing! Once more, most historians thought this was mostly just a story:

A massive army of Persian King Cambyses II was said to be swallowed up by the desert in the year 525 B.C. The army, containing a whopping 50,000 soldiers, made it to a desert oasis and then was never heard from again –until now.

“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,” wrote Herodotus.

Up until now, most historians thought this was mostly just a story, but the discovery of a massive collection of bones and silver and bronze jewelry in the desolate Sahara Desert has them reconsidering.

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~ by Fionnlagh on November 9, 2009.

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