[LibWhacker]

More here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33791672/ns/technology_and_science-science/

[SolidWood]

Fascinating. An archeologist's gold mine.

The Achaemenid "violin" shields were neat.

Iran History Ping!

[donhunt]

It had to have been George Bush’s fault.

[edcoil]

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

[El Sordo]

Cool.

[omega4179]

I wish that would happen to the Basij and Mullahs.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Verginius Rufus]

Herodotus 3.26 (Robin Waterfield's translation):

...As for the detachment he [Cambyses] had sent to attack the Ammonians, they set out from Thebes with guides, and they clearly arrived at the town of Oasis. This is a town which is inhabited by Samians who are said to belong to the Aeschronian tribe, and which is seven days' journey from Thebes across the desert; the name of the place, translated into Greek, is the Isles of the Blessed. So by all accounts the army reached this place, but after that the only information available comes directly or indirectly from the Ammonians themselves; no one else can say what happened to them, because they did not reach the Ammonians and they did not come back either. The Ammonians, however, add an explanation for their disappearance. They say that after the army had left Oasis and was making its way across the desert towards them--in other words, somewhere between Oasis and their lands--an extraordinarily strong south wind, carrying along with it heaps of sand, fell upon them while they were taking their midday meal and buried them.

[TruthConquers]

An early forerunner of Jimmy Carter.

[JoeProBono]

[Interesting Times]

Ping.

[JDoutrider]

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[wildbill]

Wasn’t this report by Herodotus one of those that were considered fables by historians for centuries?

[Daniel II]

Fascinating. Thanks.

[SunkenCiv]

Tourists to Look for Ancient Persian Army
News Service: Iran
2/14/2004 6:24:00 PM

Tourists traversing Egypt's desert may solve a mystery that has puzzled archaeologists for centuries: what happened to the 50,000-man Persian army of King Cambyses... After walking for seven days in the desert, the army got to El-Khargeh, presumably intending to follow the caravan route via the Dakhla Oasis and Farafra Oasis to Siwa. But after they left El-Khargeh, they were never seen again... Nessim will continue the Cambyses expeditions for the next five years. "If we discover anything about the lost army, it will be the discovery of the century," he said.

[Billthedrill]

“I coulda had guard duty at the Hanging Gardens but my detailer sent me here instead...”

[DainBramage]

Dem bones Dem bones Dem dryyyyy bones

[RegulatorCountry]

If the historical description is anywhere close to accurate, there will be a lot of mummified bodies, just desiccated after being buried alive.